Creation and Evolution - Part 9 - An Alternative

AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO THINK

Modern mathematical theory has pointed a way out, which points the way to a new philosophy. The evolution of Chaos Theory in the latter part of the 20th Century resulted in some interesting insights. One of these is the finding that randomness cannot seem to manage to persist for very long. There appears to be a mechanism built in to the universe which produces a form of order out of chaos, with only the slightest perturbation being required.

Hence the 1970s song by The Moody Blues about “Butterfly Sneezes” creating major change. It has been said that a butterfly flapping its wings may stir the air to create a tornado at some later place and time. Such examples are both fanciful and illustrative. It is questionable whether butterflies play a major role in the weather, but it is predicted by chaos theory that there can be no perfectly random motion of particles without eventual perturbation, clumping of molecules, followed by formation of patterns which display order.

The implication of this is profound. It means that order is the natural state of the universe, and that randomness, or chaos, cannot persist for more than a short period of time.

This is remarkably close to some of the theories of creation by emanation. There is an innate tendency for organization, built into the very fabric of the universe, such that creation at the most basic level must take place. So we could take emanation as our model, but only at the most elementary and basic levels at which creation takes place.

Given that creation must occur, we can safely assume that we inhabit a world in which the intelligence for pattern formation, which is the essence of creation, is an essential part. The world contains its own innate rules which overcome randomness with organization, given enough time. The amount of time is likely pseudo-random, that is, a certain level of organization has a certain probability of taking place within a certain time frame, as set by the unique properties of space and material at the starting point.

Intelligence is either a fundamental property of a thing (such as ourselves, assuming we take ourselves to be intelligent), or else we say that intelligence is built into a thing. This description is a new one since the computer era, but we say that intelligence is built into our appliances, into our desktop computers, and so forth. It is our way of saying that it is programmed to behave a certain way. Intelligence has not been known to grow by itself, in our experience; it is obtained either from the environment, or by deliberate input, or else it was innate, like the oak tree’s fundamental character was contained in the acorn.

If we find Intelligence in the world around us, or in ourselves, we could say that, from our experience, this Intelligence was placed in the world, or in us, by a combination of means; but all the Intelligence we find was present from the start. It found its way to us by a combination of means, by genetic programming and by learning, but either way, It was present in one form or another.

The intelligence that resides in our individuality has the quality of being consciously held. We can call it up at will, wield it in whatever way we choose. This differs greatly from the intelligence of most of the world. We can choose to be a farmer, a fireman, or a writer. A tree can only choose to be a tree; but we can choose to make it a china cabinet. I doubt we would be prepared to say that the tree chose to become a china cabinet by utilizing us to do the work! The tree is not conscious; it reacts to things – it does not act.

So we can choose to view the Intelligence as being innate in the world, in an unconscious way; but being conscious in us. We are individualized points of Universal Consciousness, through which the Universal Intelligence may be directed for desired ends.

We can choose now to take this responsibility and run with it, or put our heads back into the sand.

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