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Consciousness is a part of reality
The Universe can not exist without consciousness. The structure of reality is something an intelligence produces. We can't operate without patterns. But only humans makes patterns. So ... Intelligence is part of reality. Consciousness thus can be seen as the principality of reality.
And if we accept there are other agents in reality we can expand intelligence to the extreme, to the pattern of all patterns. We usually represented that ultimate congregated intelligence as God.
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Religion the binding agent
A philosophy that acts as a connecting tissue for a community needs stories and rituals. Abstract concepts about the nature of reality or morality are not as conducive to cohesive action.
Religion has played this role all through history. Being the binding agent for the preva...
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Robin Hood as the Trickster Archetype
The story of Robin Hood can be seen as the rebellion against a corupt system. Robin starts a process of civil disobedience, which ends with the return of the legitimate king and the reintegration of Robin into a just hierarchy.
Robin in a sense is what a trickster should do when th...
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The sources of consciousness
At the extremes consciousness can be a side-effect of information processing (neurons firing in our brain causing this feeling of "being me") or panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe (atoms are conscious).
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Dogma is not a good representation of reality
The problem with Christianity is that it turned into dogma: focusing on symbols and idols. The ultimate reality is acknowledging that truth lies beyond words. Imaging God as an old man sitting on the throne is nothing but silly, however we tend to personify deities and make ritua...
The big questions of a scientific world
SF, the good SF at lest, is working on the same big questions we keep asking as human beings, but from a place of scientific understanding rather than assuming everything is God-made:
- What is our purpose in an infinite universe that does not seem to care about us?
- Are we alone ...
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