Who is a pantheist?

A pantheist is someone who either believes that ‘All (= Pan) is God’ or who generates a limited but perfect copy of Pan’s self-ordering rules set, thereby creating a perfect locality (or niche). By localising, i.e. delimiting Pan, she differentiates Pan-as-herself. By differentiating herself she defines her identity (and Pan’s) and intensifies her (and Pan’s) realness, thereby increasing her (and Pan’s) local survival capacity.

In other words, a pantheist is someone who enacts Pan’s universal rules locally, thereby increasing the survival efficiency of herself-as-Pan-niche. The pantheist does (differently) or dies. Her niche (i.e. She as Pan state) emerges as actual, localised because limited, thus identifiable and real representation, hence as a state of the god Pan, that is to say, of the undifferentiated and unreal universal self-ordering template.

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The pantheist upgrades her survival capacity by adapting to prevailing survival conditions. The side-effect of adaptation emerges as (the creation of) both greater complexity and more elaborate formal efficiency that manifest as differentiated and ‘fitter-for-survival’ form.  

The pantheist understands that the whole universe as it appears in personal everyday real-time manifests God ≈ Pan. Which means that all the myriad actual forms, both animate and inanimate, of which the universe consists function as less or more complex and formally elaborate representations of Pan’s attempts to create a real, ongoing identity and thereby complete Itself.

The pantheist therefore understands herself as the ‘best’ Pan could do under the circumstances.

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Commentary

Who is a pantheist? A pantheist^1is someone who either believes^2 that ‘All (= Pan) is God’ or who generates^3a limited but perfect^4 copy of Pan’s virtual^5 self-ordering rules set, thereby creating an actual^6 locality (or niche^7). By localising, i.e. delimiting Pan, she differentiates Pan-as-herself. By differentiating herself she defines her identity (and Pan’s) and intensifies her (and Pan’s) realness, thereby increasing her (and Pan’s) local survival capacity.^8 In other words, a pantheist is someone who enacts Pan’s universal rules locally, thereby increasing the survival efficiency of herself-as-Pan-niche. The pantheist does (differently)^9 or dies.^10,11 Her niche (i.e. She as Pan state) emerges as actual, localised because limited, thus identifiable and real representation,^12 hence as a state of the god Pan, that is to say, of the undifferentiated and unreal universal self-ordering template. The pantheist upgrades her survival capacity by adapting to prevailing survival conditions.^13 The side-effect of adaptation emerges as (the creation of) both greater complexity and more elaborate formal efficiency that manifest as differentiated and ‘fitter-for-survival’ form.   The pantheist understands that the whole universe as it appears in personal everyday real-time manifests God ≈ Pan. Which means that all the myriad actual forms, both animate and inanimate, of which the universe consists function as less or more complex and formally elaborate representations of Pan’s attempts to create a real, ongoing identity and thereby complete Itself.^14 The pantheist therefore understands herself as the ‘best’ Pan could do under the circumstances.^15 Next > > > The crux of pantheism Home © 2018 by Victor Langheld

1. The word ‘pantheism’, meaning: ‘All is God/theos’ or ‘God is nature doing its thing’ i.e. natura naturans, was invented by the mathematician Joseph Raphson in 1697. The pantheist notion was first mooted in medieval Europe by the Irish scholiast, John Scotus Eriugena's (c. 850 AD) and then brought up to almost modern speed by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza. In ancient India the same belief was named Brahmanism. The like notion emerged in ancient China as ‘the Tao that cannot be named.’ 2. Martin Luther, following St. Paul, falsely claimed ‘justification (and so salvation) by belief alone!’ and which was a shrewd political move. He took the (henotheistic) view that subscribing, voluntarily or by force, i.e. through baptism) to one particular rules selection (i.e. Christianity) made one a member of a particular, hence henotheistic club. What one actually did with, i.e. how one enacted those rules, was in his opinion irrelevant. That opened the easy gate to mass membership. Those, like Calvin, who proposed that how one applied the rules (for instance, the Protestant Christian Ethic) decided justification and salvation, that is to say, ‘justification by work/act,’ found little popular support. Their henotheistic club had very few members hence appeared to lose the religious selection and survival struggle. The third justification option, proposed by the religious fantasist St Augustine (and the Katha Upanishad), suggested ‘justification by grace.’ That club had even less members. 3. For ‘generate’ read: make, do, produce, act out; make emerge. Those who generate are justified (i.e. adjusted for selection and survival) by act (i.e. ‘work’) alone. The true pantheist, emerging as local Pan (≈ God) copy, cannot but operate as doer (≈ creator) rather than as believer. She does differently and so is wholly compliant with Pan’s rules, thus ‘righteous.’ 4. For ‘perfect’ read: Latin: per factum, thus as a fact, quantum or whole unit, to wit, as an enstasy or ens with zero internal entropy, i.e. perfectly ordered hence @internal rest, i.e. in thermodynamic stasis, hence responding as a relative solid. 5. ‘Virtual’ meaning|: ‘waiting’ prior to realness, resulting from one-to-one, hence digital or quantized contact, and identity, resulting from relative serial, hence analogue contact. 6. ‘Actual’ meaning: emerged as real and identifiable. 7. A niche emerges as a particular or differential set of constraints (i.e. rules or laws) on (upon, hence one-up or superimposed on) the universal, undifferentiated ordering rules template named Pan. A niche appears as formal (i.e. iconic) trace of a successful complex survival ≈ transmission attempt. Survival is achieved by successfully upgrading complexity, meaning response flexibility and/or energy and then reality testing (i.e. transmitting) the upgrade against/to alternate niches (actually by means of mortal combat). For instance, if Pan is conceived as the universal rules (or principle) of football, then a niche emerges when the universal rules (i.e. the principle) are (is) applied to form an actual-as-particular football club or to play an actual game. The actual game played (Sanskrit: saguna Brahman ≈ pan as niche operation) is, because the merely the principle put into practice, identical with not only with the universal rules of the game (Sanskrit: nirguna Brahman ≈ non-localised (i.e. universal) Pan) but of universal rules of gaming as such. 8. For ‘her survival capacity (or ‘fitness to survive’, so Spencer/Darwin) read: her godliness. For ‘god’ read: a template (or program) of constraints/rules, such as the Traffic Code, that (trans-)forms or transmutes disorder into order and so increases survival capacity (or momentum). Since ‘ex nihilo nihil’, meaning ‘nothing comes from nothing’ it could be inferred that the whole universe appears as self-ordering, i.e. automatic wave interference patterns in a disturbed (since the Big Bang) quantum condensate. In short, the collision/contact of two quanta (to wit. happening as 1c^2 moment) produces the experience (i.e. fact) of realness (i.e. as is’ness moment) and quantum contact (i.e. 1c^2 moments) series generate/create a complex trace processed (i.e. iconised) by a reduced processing capacity observer as (analogue) form. 9. Sameness is compressed out. In other words, repetition does not affect (i.e. make contact). ‘Only difference makes a difference.’ And it’s the pantheist’s job, if she does not want to be eliminated, to make a real, identifiable difference. If she does her job she is compliant with (i.e. obeys) Pan’s (hence nature’s) rules and rewards herself with the happiness of feeling ‘saved.’ If she is non-compliant (i.e. disobeys), thus ‘sins’, she punishes herself with the misery of feeling ‘lost.’ It is from this insight that the notion of karma first arose, rules compliance resulting in good karma and non-compliance resulting in bad karma. 10. As wholly recursive albeit elaborated (i.e. differentiated) niche copy of Pan she cannot but be compliant with Pan’s universal ordering rules. It is her job to apply Pan’s rules locally and thereby generate a local solution to Pan’s universal problem, namely Pan’s fundamental incompleteness deriving from its singularity (or monopole status). For: ‘It is not good for Pan to be alone!’ 11. By contrast, the henotheist subscriber ‘believes (has faith) and lives!’ 12. For ‘representation’ read: icon. What is represented are highly compressed data flows whose vastness cannot be consciously assessed. So it is that consciousness consists of the ongoing flow of representations of data flows deciding a system’s survival status. 13. The prevailing (and so competing) survival conditions emerge as alternate universal rules selections, that is to say, as localised versions of fundamentally identical Pan copies. Hence, for example, do all other humans emerge as alternate versions of myself. 14. Pan’s Original sin (i.e. her failure) consists in her incompleteness. As ‘ONE’, hence @ thermodynamic rest (i.e. @ minimum entropy) she is incomplete because ‘unproven’ because ‘waiting’ un-emerged (i.e. unborn), hence without realness or identity. The latter emerge via contact resulting from turbulence (i.e. dynamic disorder), hence not-@-oneness. During copying Pan’s incompleteness (i.e. her original sin) is also copied so that each copy runs (i.e. as niche emergent) the entire Pan self-completing (hence self-righteousness creating) program/algorithm. 15. Likewise (i.e. equally) all other appearances in/as the universe. And that is why the pantheist experiences the given world as good, and as perfect too, and which creates serious problems for her as she interacts with her everyday world with its apparent (but merely superficial, but for her all-important) niche inequalities/differences.