Happy birthday, God! Now blow out the candle.
Lol.
Happy birthday, God! Now blow out the candle.
I take that back. God is not subject to anything at all. He can exist independently of creation.
Fork said:The above basically says that God is a single being that can distribute itself over reality at large.
This level possesses three formal properties of SCSPL: "syntactic self-distribution" (analogous to omnipresence)
"perfect autotransductive reflexivity" (analogous to omniscience)
and "self-configuration up to freedom" (analogous to omnipotence).
Because these are theological attributes, Langan describes reality as "the mind of God". So, claims Langan, because the CTMU constitutes absolute truth—because it is founded on tautology and supported by logical and mathematical reasoning—it proves the existence of God.
You've misunderstood what Langan is saying (although it's hard to understand why since he's quite explicit). Just like numerous people before him, he is conceptualizing god as something that is not, never was and never could be independent of creation. We are all rather inside god and therefore part of what god is. Within the context of CTMU in particular, god is fundamentally a mind, and everything that exists (including us) is a part of that mind. It's essentially a sort of pantheism, or possibly panentheism given that the mind of god presumably in some sense also transcends everything it contains.
Then what defines and delineates it from nature itself?You are correct. God does not exist independently of creation.
Then what defines and delineates it from nature itself?
Perfect what?? (Lotsa obscure jargon being thrown around, which is rarely a good sign in philosophy.)
...... Langan describes reality as "the mind of God". So, claims Langan, because the CTMU constitutes absolute truth—because it is founded on tautology and supported by logical and mathematical reasoning—it proves the existence of God.[39]
No it isn't, and no it doesn't.
Who is this Langan?
If he is an academic, I pity the poor students who have to suffer this claptrap.
The days in which God could not be known and thought to be beyond us are gone.
The word "sand" refers to some large number of sand grains, but use of a single noun to collectively refer to sand doesn't imply that there's some "single being" called "sand" that exists in addition to the individual grains.
God is one with everything.
Langan says existence is everywhere the choice to exist.
Then what delineates it from nature itself?
Langan is a nutcase, none of that makes any sense.
Nature is also non-separated. Only our language separates things into discrete entities.Non-separation or unity by spirit.