This Cosmic Knower, the *Player of the Cosmic Process,* is pure energy. It is intelligent. It is conscious. It is a Person. And this Player is also creative!

Considering cosmic creativity, Bohm introduces a new concept in which he describes the Implicate Order as a kind of *generative order.* He notes that “This order is primarily concerned not with the outward side of development, and evolution in a sequence of successions, but with a deeper and more inward order out of which the manifest form of things can emerge *creatively.*”

Bohm believes that the generative order “proceeds from an origin in free play which then unfolds into ever more crystallized forms.” Generative order can be seen in the work of an artist. Bohm uses the example of Mandelbrot’s mathematically-derived fractals to illustrate more scientifically this cosmic generativity. “Fractals involve an order of similar differences which include changes of scale as well as other possible changes.” Bohm notes that “By choosing different base figures and generators, but each time applying the generator on a smaller and smaller scale, Mandelbrot is able to produce a great variety of shapes and figures—All are filled with infinitesimal detail and are evocative of the types of complexity found in natural forms.”

OverclockedJesus Posted:

Yes.

Are you 100% certain that square circles do not exist, bearing in mind that a circle is defined as the locus of all points equidistant from a central point, and a square is an equilateral quadrilateral with all interior angles being right angles?

Now if you don’t understand how I can compare the two, you really need to work on your ability to make conceptual leaps. If something is defined in such a way as to have self-contradictory or otherwise contradictory attributes, it necessarily cannot exist. This is basic stuff, and someone who supposedly went to college should be able to grasp it.

explain light

OverclockedJesus Posted:

Yes. The universe is the framework for existence. It is existence, in a way. Without the universe as the backdrop, what is meant by “exist”?

What prevents multiple different interacting copies of “existence”?

OverclockedJesus Posted:

Mystical, self-contradictory nonsense. Conscious pure energy? Consciousness requires something to be conscious of. Disembodied consciousness is self-contradictory.

I think he was joking around.

Hobart Bliggity Posted:

explain light

http://www.howstuffworks.com/light.htm

IOW: trying to create mysteries so you can stick god there is the god-of-the-gaps fallacy.

Fear Is For The Weak Posted:

Proof? Answer that. Or else you’re even stupider than anyone who posted in this thread.

No proof, which is exactly my point. Any claims about the absolute existence of God are inherently faith-based, ergo belief in no God is the same as belief in God.

DarkDespair5 Posted:

What prevents multiple different interacting copies of “existence”?

The basic workings of the backdrop. Two things cannot occupy the same space, right?

OverclockedJesus Posted:

The basic workings of the backdrop. Two things cannot occupy the same space, right?

How do we know there is merely a single backdrop that encompbumes infinity?

dude, if your so sure you’ve unveiled all the mysteries of the cosmos mabye you should spread the word! i’m sure there are hundreds of scientists and philosophers who would be glad to know their questions have been answered

BirdofPrey Posted:

dude, if your so sure you’ve unveiled all the mysteries of the cosmos mabye you should spread the word!

Do you know what a strawman is?