Preparatory Text 2

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. Continuing from Preparatory Text 1. I may attempt to make the preparatory texts a bit more organized and I may attempt to reorganize the ideas from Preparatory Text 1. Hopefully there will be some light in this.

What is the relationship between awareness and existence?

At the level of God, we know that existence and awareness is united simply under the greater category of existence. Now, since God possess infinite knowledge and is in fact infinite knowledge, there is a one-to-one correspondence between all existence and awareness. So, it means that at the very least, all existence can affect awareness and be perceived one way or another. An existence which cannot affect awareness leads to a fundamental breakdown in the logic necessary to demonstrate God’s existence or precisely the attributes of God. This eventually leads to a breakdown in reasoning altogether. So by the laws of logic and reasoning given to us by God, we must deduce that existence is correspondent to awareness and perception. For every particular existence, there is an equivalent perception.

Now, we must ask whether the total perceptions of creatures constitutes contingent reality or contingent reality is truly separate and distinct from the total perception of all aware creatures. Assume a universe with only A and B, A is an observer and B is a non-aware object. A is aware of B, we assume that A is by nature aware of themselves as well, but we shall focus on A’s awareness of B. Now if B is merely a perception of A which God causes to be within the self of A, then as soon as A ends, B ends with A, as B is a perception of A. Yet at the same time, what is B? What is the precise relationship between B and A?

In truth, the true relationship between B and A is actually union. B was never a separate object from A, rather B is merely that part of A’s self which is hidden away by God and then actualized by God and sustained by God. If A and B are truly distinct and separate, then B should not end with the end of A. Instead B may continue to exist in spite of the lack of a perception of B by A. Yet remember that God Himself perceives B in eternity and thus have the sole power to determine the existence of B.

Then I have this weird idea. The idea that the area of the world which is hidden from all aware beings is actually in a state determined by God and calculated by God. Please note that God is infinite knowledge so He already knows every part of the process at the one point of existence He is. Ah I need some logic.

First Scenario: Unity, A

1.     A ends.

2.     B ends with A as B is fundamentally a perception of A.

2 Objects. A and B. A is a perceiver. B is an object.

A perceives B, or A possess the perception of B.

First Scenario (Revised Edition)

If A and B are separate. B is an object separate from A, and A possess the perception of B.

Sub scenario 2 If B ends.

Second Scenario

If A and B are united. The perception of B, and B, are one and the same. If A ends, then B ends. There really is just A. And A has access to a perception called B.

Sub Scenario. Here B that ends. But A does not end. Why does not A end.

Assumption A is a self perceiver.

A self, or an independent awareness is defined by self awareness.

Big Bang, Catholic.

The relationship between A and B is between a necessary object and a contingent property. IF A and B are united.

Third Scenario

A and B are separate, but A loses perception of B. B is not affected.

Loss of meaning of perception.

The Knowledge of God

How do we know that God is omniscience? How do we know that God has an intellect? If God has an intellect and thus knowledge, then it would be easy to infer that His knowledge and intellect is not only infinite but identical to His Existence. However, how do we precisely reason from the idea that God is Infinity to the idea that God has an intellect? It does not follow that “What we possess, God possess infinitely.” For first, we possess many things which God does not possess for God is absolutely beyond and above these things which we possess. For example, we cannot say that due to the fact that we possess a body, then God possess an infinite body. For He has no body in His Existence.

Therefore, it seems that there is a necessity to establish the primacy of the intellect first before we can establish that God has an intellect. So, let us begin with screwing up our heads once more.

Several ways of understanding

1.     What we possess, God possess infinitely. This does not work.

2.     God possess all perfections, the intellect is a perfection, therefore God possess an intellect. Prove that the intellect is a perfection.

3.     Yet the intellect and awareness is a category of objects, not a particular finite object.

It seems intuitive and necessary that God is an intellect, the infinitely powerful intellectual existence in fact. Let us attempt to reason this. We possess awareness. It is possible for us not to possess awareness. So we have defined that God is Infinite Existence. This means His Existence includes all things. His Existence must include awareness and knowledge as well, therefore, since whatever He is must be infinite in nature, then His awareness and knowledge must be infinite as well. However, I do not think that this is a hard proof, rather it is a soft proof.

Other minds, or consciousness.

The error of rationalists and empiricists. The rationalist and the empiricist both have this problem of transcendental realist. Rationalists claim that we can know through pure reason alone. Even if A and B are independent of each other. The empiricist solution is that what we know is all there is. What can bridge the gap between awareness and reality. Kant’s Copernican revolution. Not the object determining cognition, but the cognition determining object. A priori must come from the mind. The mind exports the a priori knowledge of objects to reality itself. There is a reality, but we perceive is the appearance, not the things in themselves. We perceive what we presuppose in the objects. The reason is intuition, sensibility. Intuition is sensibility, sensation, sensory experience.

1.     There is a reality outside of us

2.     But what we perceive is really what we presuppose of reality.

3.     Computer receives input and it converts the input

4.     We receive reality as an input and we interpret it according to apriori knowledge.

The Primacy of Consciousness

It’s time to break through the linguistic conventions and return to the generality of experience and consciousness. It is time to enforce the primacy of consciousness. The general idea of God is untouched, but the idea of the union between awareness and existence in God, or whether there is even anything of awareness in God, is thrown into radical question. Therefore, the possibilities have just exploded at least by 2. However, we must accept something first. We know that things can only be in one particular state at any given point of time. So, God has to make a choice for contingent reality out of the infinite possibilities of what can exist contingently.

This establishes that not only God has Will, God also has Free Will. It is obvious that God would have Free Will as God is Unlimited, Infinite, and thus Unrestricted by any other object other than Himself.