Chris has made a partial response to my previous email, but mostly he is being evasive, IMO. He pointedly ignored my request for a meeting, so, by way of response, I have reiterated that request. Will I have to make a federal case of this request? I would like to know what John A thinks about my possible presence. I would suspect that he would likely heed CR, on that score.
One of us has a brand new pair of skates. The other one has a key. Is it Omelet time? No?
He has multiple websites, with minimal indexing.........
Now for the fly in the cosmological ointment. As we have seen, it is the nature of the cognitive self to formulate models incorporating ever-higher levels of change (or time). Obviously, the highest level of change is that characterizing the creation of reality. Prior to the moment of creation, the universe was not there; afterwards, the universe was there. This represents a sizable change indeed! Unfortunately, it also constitutes a sizable paradox. If the creation of reality was a real event, and if this event occurred in cosmic time, then cosmic time itself is real. But then cosmic time is an aspect of reality and can only have been created with reality. This implies that cosmic time, and in fact reality, must have created themselves!
The idea that the universe created itself brings a whole new meaning to bidirectional time, and thus to the idea that cognition may play a role in the creation of reality. As a self-creative mechanism for the universe is sought, it becomes apparent that cognition is the only process lending itself to plausible interpretation as a means of temporal feedback from present to past. Were cognition to play such a role, then in a literal sense, its most universal models of temporal reality would become identical to the reality being modeled. Time would become cognition, and space would become a system of geometric relations that evolves by distributed cognitive processing.
Here comes the surprise: such a model exists. Appropriately enough, it is called the Cognition-Theoretic Model of the Universe, or CTMU for short. A cross between John Archibald Wheeler’s Participatory Universe and the Stephen Hawking-James Hartle "imaginary time" theory of cosmology proposed in Hawking’s phenomenal book A Brief History of Time, the CTMU resolves many of the most intractable paradoxes known to physical science while explaining recent data which indicate that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Better yet, it bestows on human consciousness a level of meaning that was previously approached only by religion and mysticism. If it passes the test of time – and there are many good reasons to think that it will - then it will be the greatest step that humanity has yet taken towards a real understanding of its most (or least?) timeless mystery.
And so the circle closes. Time becomes a cosmogonic loop whereby the universe creates itself. The origin of our time concept, the self, becomes the origin of time itself. Our cognitive models of time become a model of time-as-cognition. And the languages of cognition and physics become one self-configuring, self-processing language of which time is the unified grammar. Talk about "time out of mind"!
Hmmm...........! Prvt comm.......
I haven't published more than a fraction of what I know about the theory and its implications. One reason, of course, is that intellectual commerce is tightly controlled, and intellectual credit jealously arrogated, by people who, despite the best efforts of others to meaningfully dialogue with them, pursue personal and institutional agendas with total disregard for the long-term welfare of mankind (I refer to what might be called the "media-educational indoctrination complex"). Unfortunately, ideas shared with these people in good faith are generally subject to attack, misrepresentation, misinterpretation, missourcing, conceptual teratogenesis, and garden-variety spin. This is why well-established in-crowds are usually best avoided (until the time is right) by rational outsiders with potentially disruptive knowledge. It's also why most people don't realize how well-developed the CTMU already is.
Tell us about it.......! If Chris wants to learn how to avoid the media, me thinks he has come to the right place!
I would guess that Chris is rather closer to the small is beautiful (SIB) hypothessis that he has, so far, been willing to admit in public. This is what I need to talk to him about in Philly. Also, I'm willing to wager that he is putting a bit too much faith in pure(?) logic. At some point, even the best and brightest have to let the son shine in! No?! And then there Is this.......
My public writings have stressed the logical part of the theory because, without a solid logical foundation, the rest of the theory might appear pretentious (after all, it's a unique sort of metaphysical TOE). It does in fact establish, in a logical way unreliant on traditional Leibnizian theodicy, that this is (in a qualified sense) the best of all possible worlds - we're in full agreement on that, and I have no doubt that you've achieved significant insights of your own along those lines in your BPWH. We also agree on the value of Christianity as an indispensable spiritual advance to be protected from its many virulent enemies. However, I make a distinction between Christian scripture, i.e. the New Testament, and sectarian doctrine, which often bears little correspondence to revelatory texts as they actually exist. A theory dealing with absolute truth cannot be associated with any particular interpretation of scripture; rather, it is a set of interpretative guidelines and constraints on the scripture of any given faith.
I suspect that both Chris and Larry, with the exception of their collaboration with John, are innocent of the GIC. And so they are not quite in the disclosure loop, i.e. they do not yet have a robust/working(!) model of same. Me thinks we can fix that, in a jiffy!
I'm also thinking that I am, once again, attempting to make a federal case out of the OEH vs YEH, wrt the SfA. I'll be happy to take a page out Luther's book, and I only need One thesis. He needed 95. That is 94 too many, IMHO. Life has become so much simpler........ in these latter days!
Hey, sports fans, I don't even need a Cathedral door...... all I need is a whiteboard. And, hey, again...... I have a little game in mind...... I wonder if Larry and Chris would like to play John the Baptist...... aquarium style? Just wondering........
12:45----------
Oh, dear.......... talk about miscommunication......... Cy, quite innocently, supposes that, when I speak of the X-event, I am referring to an XLE! Now, this is mostly my fault, but it is, to some degree, a felix-culpa. Recall, sports fans, that I frequently refer to Xianity. That should be a pretty big clue. No? And, in the case of the BPWH, I have never invoked an XLE. That would be an Oxymoron. No?!
So, please, Cy, et al, if there is something about the BPWH that makes no sense, then there must be a misunderstanding, somewhere along the line. If the BPWH is not coherent, then nothing is.
And, so, Cy, what does Cairo stand for, it being the de-facto capital of the Muslim world? Look it up, please! This is how, very often, language can speak much louder than mere words. And don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
The rest of what Cy has to say, in the above post, is most interesting, just taken in itself. At the least, it gives more insight into her hopes and fears, which reminds me of the X0-event......
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
Now, however, when I refer to the X-event, without qualification, I am referring to the event of the passion, period!
Are we all on the same page, now? Perhaps, then, Cy will, kindly, re-collect her thoughts, and provide a response that relates directly to the BPWH, and not just to her worst fears and suspicions. I wonder what she has been supposing my frequent reference to X2 is all about. Golly, I hardly know whether to cry or laugh. So why am I so lazy wrt acronyms? Well, it does keep the unwary of the scent, evidently.
2pm--------------
What exactly was it that was needed most? What was it that was arranged for before even the "request" was made? My grandmother took entirely too much to her grave with her. I am left with a puzzle I'm supposed to be especially equipped to solve and while I sit in the midst, even I still ponder.
IMHO, Cy and Chris are in similar positions wrt the BPWH. It is just about the hopes and fears of all our years. It is a bit like my grandmother, OCS. As a child, she lost the sight in one eye. As time went by, there emerged the option that she could have a transplant, I believe it was, but she said that she was content to merely live with the hope, rather than the actuality. This explains much of the human psychology, in these latter days.
We are also, mostly unwittingly, playing the game of who has the button........ the red button, the d-day, joker, or is it the ace in the hole? These are no games for the feint of heart. This is no country for old men! Suffer the little children.........
Everybody, especially Jack, is afraid to pick up the red phone, the God-phone, because what will we do if there is no one on the other end? Cry a lot? It would be a sad day in Mudville, woud it not? Lord, we of feint heart....... Hey, what, me worry?
3:35----------
42' with WLP....... trying to suss-out the Philly situation. He's betting that John will still be able to black-ball me, over Ron's intervention. So, I guess I'd better check with CK...... And the call has gone in.......
What do I bet? I'm willing to bet that CK can rise to the occasion.
5:15------------
Having dinner with Sam. Hoping that I don't have to stop off in GF, on the way back from Richmond, on Friday evening. Not sure if the princess and I are still on speaking terms. But, hey, I can always bring my checkbook, if it hasn't gotten rusty. All she has to do is read this blog, once a month, come heck or high water........
5:45----------
Spoke to Kim B. He has volunteered to be Jack's phone person to arrange our next meeting in SF, to which we might entice the L&C show. This might work. There are quite a few balls in the air. No? Who will be the first to drop one?
10:30------------
Well, the propsed Philadelphia meeting has been postponed until after John returns from his cruise. The possibility that I might meet independently with Chris, was only alluded to by CK.
Urgency.......? Well, no one I know is holding their breath.
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