The religion of the future

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[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

phrenology

Huh?

Belief in a cosmic mind aka God which can be justified scientifically

How?

[–]Ponderer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

phrenology

Maybe he means something like physiognomy, or maybe just the general idea of innate traits influencing outward behaviors.

Belief in a cosmic mind aka God which can be justified scientifically

Yeah, I don't totally agree with this except as a matter of interpretation.

Unless the universe has always existed, one could objectively say that there was a supernatural unmoved mover that somehow started time and created everything. However, such an entity does not need to be sentient.

Maybe one could posit some interesting beliefs about the nature of consciousness as well, but I don't think there is anything approximating a "cosmic mind" that can be equated to the traditional conception of God.

[–]Nombre27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think the cosmic mind thing could simply be a different way of describing the laws that we observe, e.g. gravity, Newton's laws, inverse relationship of pressure and volume, etc.

This kind of ventures towards a pantheistic or panentheistic view of the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism

Maybe one could posit some interesting beliefs about the nature of consciousness as well, but I don't think there is anything approximating a "cosmic mind" that can be equated to the traditional conception of God.

I agree. The Abrahamic God has been anthropomorphized by a very narcissistic and malicious group of people, and it shows in how their God behaves.

[–]Ponderer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the cosmic mind thing could simply be a different way of describing the laws that we observe, e.g. gravity, Newton's laws, inverse relationship of pressure and volume, etc.

I could see this. The noumenon exists in some real sense even though we can't physically touch it. This would be very similar to the Gnostic conception of God.