@MichaelSpinler Sadly I missed that one.

@MichaelSpinler Any sources for your assertions or is it just your opinion?

@MichaelSpinler Here’s a few sources on the subject of universal intelligence or consciousness, which has been advocated by large numbers of eminent physicists. They were not thinking of God in the mythical sense, or as something supernatural. Yet theirs is a sort of philosophical God.

Universal Consciousness

[scientificamerican.com]

[jcer.com]

[m.huffpost.com]

[google.com]

[bigthink.com]

[ecstadelic.net]?

“Lest the idea of a unitary, group, or universal mind be dismissed as new-age woo-woo, we should note that some of the most distinguished scientists of the 20th century have endorsed this perspective. The renowned physicist David Bohm said, "Each person enfolds something of the spirit of the other in his consciousness. Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty... and if we don't see this it's because we are blinding ourselves to it." Anthropologist and psychologist Gregory Bateson: "The individual mind is immanent but not only in the body. It is immanent also in the pathways and messages outside the body; and there is a larger Mind of which the individual mind is only a sub-system..." Physicist Henry Margenau: "There is a physical reality that is in essence the same for all... [This] oneness of the all implies the universality of mind... If my conclusions are correct, each individual is part of God or part of the Universal Mind." Nobel physicist Erwin Schrodinger also believed that minds are united and one. He said, "To divide or multiply consciousness is something meaningless. There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousness... [I]n truth there is only one mind." [huffpost.com]

Surely you do not dismiss all these brilliant physicists as merely superstitious. I respect their opinions.

@MichaelSpinler it sounds as though you are an extremely advanced intellectual and have everything figured out. I myself know nothing and am baffled by the staggering implications of existence. I look at things as Einstein did:

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

And here’s Sir. Arthur Eddington, one of the foremost physicists of the twentieth century:

“The universe is of the nature of a thought or sensation in a universal Mind... To put the conclusion crudely — the stuff of the world is mind-stuff.

“We are no longer tempted to condemn the spiritual aspects of our nature as illusory because of their lack of concreteness.

“The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions... For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.”

I guess that in my quest I’ll first try to understand these great luminaries before moving on to your philosophy.