Monday, September 12, 2016
The fear of determinism in every field
The pervasiveness of the fear of
determinism in every field of knowledge is surprising. It exists not
only in the nature/nurture debates of sociobiology and psychology but
within the debates over which national territories were the first to
evolve Homo sapiens, the traditionalism/Marxism debates, and even
within physics where the “indeterminacy” of the “superposition”
now seems to rule.
It always comes back to the physical,
the material, at least for me, where seemingly free and random
movements are more like the boulder rolling down the mountain with
physical forces determining the paths. When the wind blows the
leaves of the tree it is not a mystical force, it is physical,
planetary, weather forces. I think the superposition in physics remains tied to physical forces
still needing to be better determined.
And in the same way Godhood, the Spirit,
and the Soul are material or supermaterial forces, they are not
immaterial, spiritual, indeterminate, mystic forces. The Spirit, or Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, is
a material or supermaterial force within life that helps activate life
to evolve steadily toward Godhood in the universe, with many starts
and stops along the way due to having to work in conjunction with the
ups and downs of natural evolution.
So why this pervasive fear of
determinism? It seems tied to our drives toward survival and
reproductive success, mostly unconscious, and we simply can't accept
any force as being determined to control us or win over us, unless it
is a force which allows us to win---even if we have to invent the
force. This makes the truth about these things hard to come by.
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