The Strange Requisites Of A Toe

[Bob Campbell]

THE STRANGE REQUISITES OF A TOE

Bob@cosmic-mindreach.com

What Is a TOE

In contemplating a theory of everything, we are expressing an implicit faith that there is in fact a transcending order to the whole of experience, an eternal reality that outlives our short sojourn here on this tiny backwater planet. This transcending cosmic order is more than a human theory. It strains our mental resources to their breaking point to imagine it, and yet we intuitively know that it must be there. It is not something that can be harnessed behind an engine of rational logic and dredged into existence from a quagmire of chaos. It is the engine. It is what pulled us into existence. It is what has endowed us with reason, intelligence, and a capacity to gaze out to the limits of the cosmos and wonder about its nature. It is what invests our words and signs and symbols with meaning. It is an intelligently ordered substrate that determines the structure of experience, all experience.

Everyone Has One

We all implicitly believe this even if we deny it. Even if we say that this entire universe is a meaningless accident and when we die we are psychically annihilated, we believe that this is true for all sentient creatures everywhere in the universe. We believe this to be an intelligent assessment of the cosmic order that transcends our own birth and death. We believe it to be universally valid, eternally true, even though it is a contradiction in terms to a more discerning perception. We should hardly be inclined to cling to the eternal idea that we are the only one in the universe condemned to oblivion. And how can we believe an idea of ours is eternal when we are not? So all this is more than just an arbitrary matter of opinion.

Age and Our Brain

We may say that we are so many years old are and yet we are being reborn every moment of our lives. Our cells are continually replacing themselves. Even our brain cells are renewing their molecular constituents. We are physically a mere couple of years old. At the same time our every thought and feeling is indebted to our evolved structure as human beings, as we climbed up through the vertebrate lineage, our three brains expanding in stages over a span of 400 million years. We are indebted to our animal ancestors for the primal feelings that animate us via our ancient limbic brain. We are indebted to our cultural heritage that has evolved out of the jungle over many millennia, for refining those feelings in socially acceptable ways through our cultural conditioning. The process has been further facilitated by our educational institutions that have accumulated vast stores of learning over the centuries that give direction to our rational thought processes and our social commitments, via our language-bound left-brain.

The Third Brain Worldview

So our bodies are very young while the feelings that animate our thoughts and actions are very old. As if two brains were not enough, we seek an invariant theory about how the whole process works, from the stars and distant galaxies to how life has evolved and why. This is a right-brain intuitive quest that cannot be fully formulated in words. We intuitively need a world view in order to function, to integrate and make sense of diverse fragments of experience. Things have to make common sense. So we seek a theory of everything that is universally valid and that never changes even though it determines the process of all change. We are very young, we are very old, and we also seek the eternal.

Eternal Understanding

We seek an eternal understanding that transcends our birth and our death and we have every reason to expect that it should invest life with transcending meaning and direction. It is universal truth that we seek and truth is not a physical thing. It is a value that is intuitively recognized. In this respect universal values are the ultimate reality in which we all share. It is values that intuitively inform us when we meaningfully integrate our experience. And yet intuition must find translation in socially relevant ways that are appropriate to current circumstance.

The Strange Requisites of a TOE

A true theory of everything must be a very strange thing. It must give us a living insight into a cosmic reality that transcends birth and death. It must embrace all possible varieties of experience, physical, biological, social, and spiritual. It must prescribe a universal basis to all meaning that is more fundamental than language and that determines its meaning. It must regulate how natural processes evolve. And it must provide insight into the nature of intelligence itself and why we must seek an eternal basis of understanding.

For more on Our Three Brains and the cosmic order see www.cosmic-mindreach.com

[Bob Campbell]

Hi Humanbydefault,

The comments in your article are amusing and sometimes insightful, but I don't see their relevance to my short article. You seem to have misunderstood me, or others. I'll post another article in another category shortly that is just a bit more extensive and you can check out my website for more if you want.

Best regards
Bob Campbell

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[mkirkpatrick]

how can one explain all,maybe,the theory of everything,is,really,about,one
thing,in whom we live and move and have our being.Maybe from one thing
comes everything,and seeing all these different manifestations,we become
confused.

If there is such a thing as a final answer to all,I think it will be very simple,
so much so that a child,could understand it.

I once asked a question from a wise old man,thinking that I could trick
him,and also show him how clever I was.The question I asked was,
how many forms of life are there in the universe,his reply astounded
me,without stopping to think he said,there is only One form of life
in this universe,expressed in an infinite number of ways.

surely then,words,like,love,light,energy,strings,consciou sness,are all interchangable,and really the same. regards michael.

[Bob Campbell]

One could not argue that a theory of everything concerns how experience is unified, in other words how it has a Oneness to it. But that does not mean that everything must be explained. It need only mean that there is a universal structure to the diversity of experience that recurrs in every aspect of experience. In other words there is an isomorphy to the structure of experience that is common to us all. And we need at least some degree of structural insight into how experience is organized in order to cope in this world. A TOE then, need only have an insight into the universal nature of structure, that is, into the cosmic order. This can hardly be an academic mathematical theory about strings or whatever. It must show how experience is organized and integrated. The final insight of Oness may be a personal one, and mute, but this also does not mean that we cannot explore the dynamics of how things work.

how can one explain all,maybe,the theory of everything,is,really,about,one
thing,in whom we live and move and have our being.Maybe from one thing
comes everything,and seeing all these different manifestations,we become
confused.

If there is such a thing as a final answer to all,I think it will be very simple,
so much so that a child,could understand it.

I once asked a question from a wise old man,thinking that I could trick
him,and also show him how clever I was.The question I asked was,
how many forms of life are there in the universe,his reply astounded
me,without stopping to think he said,there is only One form of life
in this universe,expressed in an infinite number of ways.

surely then,words,like,love,light,energy,strings,consciou sness,are all interchangable,and really the same. regards michael.

[david44]

Yes Bob you are absolutely right.

And the first and only theory of everything that has been able to do this is The Second Theory of Everything.

It is a full and complete scientific understanding of life from the sub-atomic world to the cosmos and beyond. To read about it in full go to...

http://theuniversalcodeofliving.com

[mkirkpatrick]

To fully explain all,would take all,and that cannot be done,but whatcan be done
is to reduce all to utter simplicity,and that is,"thatall is mind and mind is all"that
explanation covers the Alpha and the Omega,the beginning of manifestation and
the ending of manifestation,so simple that a child of 7 or 8 could understand it,
man in his concietful ways born of arrogant ideas,andoften bloated by inflated
egotisim,imagines thatthe more complex the theory the more real it is.When will we learn that the truthto all lies hidden in plain sight.



kindest regardsmichael.

[dthawkley]

I don't think an accurate TOE will be any more "strange" than any previous breakthrough - (e.g. Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, etc.). "Strange" and "weird" have proven to be the misnomers of "reasonable". What ends up being accurately labeled as "strange" are the faulty theories of the past. In my opinion reason will prevail. It seems to me like that is the premise of this forum, and what are the options?

For example: Roger Penrose notes:

"It remains a deep puzzle why mathematical laws should apply to the world with such phenomenal precision."
The Road to Reality, p.21

The currently "mysterious" relationship between math and science seems to me like a promising path toward an accurate TOE. That is: it seems more likely to me that if our mathematics only approximates Nature, it wouldn't be because Nature is almost mathematical; it would be because our mathematics almost makes sense. So my thought would be that an accurate TOE would be a Number theory. (a set theory w/ no paradoxes)