What is the god Pan?
Pan is the ancient Greek word meaning ‘All’. Pan, i.e. ‘All’, emerges via countless delimited manifestations, i.e. all the ‘things’ of this universe, of a recursive set of unlimited, hence universal self-organization and survival rules.
Because the self-organisation and survival rules set is universal, it is deified (by some) as the God Pan (or Pantheos).
The rules serve to create and maintain order from disorder.
So, the god Pan functions as basic, universally applicable ordering automaton. As such he acts prior to form. Form happens as Pan’s localised effect, hence as its niche manifestation.
Pan, the blind matrix that creates order, generating one of trillions of identical copies or clones that serve to generate and manifest highly localised order.
The sculpture can be seen
@ Victor’s Way, in Ireland.
Since the god Pan operates as basic but universally active ordering automaton, i.e. as basic operating system, it always operates blindly. Indeed, all the super-ordering copies-as-niches it creates as its manifestations, from the primitive extremophile, to the blade of grass, to the human, to the mobile phone are likewise blind reordering and copying devices.
So, in contrast to the cultural, man invented Gods, such as Shiva, Zeus, Jehova or even the Mahayana Buddha, and that are generally described for the benefit of the naïve as being superhuman and having vast powers such as omniscience, omnipotence and so on, the god Pan, barely perceptible, serves as blind, of minimum power but everywhere presenting and therefore natural ordering rules set.
Next > > > Who is a pantheist
What is the god Pan?
Pan1 is the ancient Greek word meaning ‘All’. Pan, i.e. ‘All’, emerges2 via countless delimited manifestations,3 i.e. all the ‘things’ of this universe, of a recursive4 set5,6 of unlimited,7 hence universal self-organization and survival rules.8
Because the self-organisation and survival rules are universal, they are deified9 (by some10) as the God Pantheos (or Pantheos).
The rules5 serve to create and maintain order6 from disorder.
So, the god7 Pan functions as basic, universally applicable ordering automaton. As such he acts prior to form.8 Form9 happens as Pan’s localised effect, hence as its niche manifestation.10
Since the god11 Pan operates as basic but universally active ordering automaton, i.e. as basic operating system, it always operates blindly.12,13 Indeed, all the super-ordering copies-as-niches IT creates14 as its manifestations, from the primitive extremophile, to the blade of grass, to the human, to the mobile phone are likewise blind re-ordering and copying devices.15
So, in contrast to the cultural, man invented Gods, such as Shiva, Zeus, Jehova or even the Mahayana Buddha, and that are generally described for the benefit of the naïve as being superhuman and having vast powers such as omniscience, omnipotence and so on,16 the god Pan,17 barely perceptible, serves as blind, of minimum power but everywhere presenting and therefore natural ordering rules set.
Next > > > Who is a pantheist
© 2018 by Victor Langheld
1. Pan (or Pantheus), is an arbitrary name, a name being a soundbite or acoustic icon as metaphor. The name Pan is ancient Greek and simply means ‘All.’ Hence Pantheus, i.e. God Pan, is translated as the ‘All God’ or ‘the God of all’. It is assumed that there is only one Pan and that therefore pantheists are monotheists.
2. Pan as universe emerges, as it were, as arrangement according to rules. Pan’s universe is neither created from nothing nor springs to life as something animated (by breath, hence spiritualized).
3. A delimited manifestation (of the universal rules of real time and form emergence) is called a niche application.
4. For recursive read: repeated or recurring, meaning, repeating application or copying of a rule.
5. A recursive set operates as ‘ground’ set. The ‘ground set’ (of the universal creation (meaning ordering) rules, i.e. Pan, would elsewhere be name a BOS, i.e. a Basic Operating System as ‘open source code’ with unlimited flexibility cum applicability, to wit, a Turing Machine. In this regard see also the notion of the ‘God Ground’ proposed by the 12th century mystic Meister Eckhart.
6. Hence as a pack, hence an application, i.e. an App. Rules sets (i.e. machines) operate as algorithms or a fractals that elaborate as local, hence real time-form niche manifestations.
7. For unlimited read alternately: indiscriminate, undifferentiated.
8. For rules read: constraints. After the (still hypothetical) Big Bang (as initial and so order initiating turbulence) the constraints (as ordering rules) would have activated automatically within the Bose-Einstein quantum concentrate within which the cognizable universe emerged as self-ordered and self-reordering ( and upgrading) by-product (or after-effect).
9. Deification of the universal is a highly useful human response. Deification turns bottom-up invented (i.e. evolved) ‘better’ (i.e. ‘fitter’) super-rules (i.e. the super-imposed niche rules that increase survival probability) into an (violently) enforceable top-down rules template that serves to imprint (i.e. teach) its niche members for their continuing welfare (and that of the enforcers) and to harmonize the behaviour of its niche members. Rules templates are designed to serve as useful fictions that can be imprinted for political, read: domestication ends. In short, deification produces an enforceable common rule book.
10. Most humans, finding comfort and guidance in henotheistic (i.e. selected, hence super-rules (super because superimposed) system) notions of creation, simply ignore Pan because of the almost insolvable human quandaries cognition of Pan as sole God/creator and of themselves as fully identical, albeit locally applied god recursions would impose. Knowing ‘I am god/ Pan’, and that all other things in the universe are also god/Pan, may or may not change one’s behaviour. The inventors of some of the ancient Indian Upanishads were aware of the (personal and public political) dilemmas created by the One-God-Only, i.e. as One-God-fits-all notion; likewise the notion of ‘one size fits all’ and one car suits all. That’s because 1 is essentially incomplete, a fact not lost on the Elohim who in Genesis 2 (with implications for themselves in Genesis 1) declared: “It is not good for the man to be alone!” Obviously ‘It takes two to tango.’
11. For ‘god’ read: creator or creatrix, to wit. a set of rules (i.e. a ruling ≈ limiting machine) that (in-) forms an emergent (as effect).
12. In other words, Pan’s general (or universal, hence undifferentiated) ordering function (or algorithm) acts indiscriminately, hence blindly, the effect (or god as niche appearance, indeed as pixel) emerging as niche response. For instance, if Pan (like a Queen Bee) were to lay identically constituted eggs indiscriminately into a zillion random niches each one would develop (form out) to fit the niche (as super-rules system that gives local shape and realness) it hatched in. In other words, the blind Pan sees (simulates seeing) like the blind man seeing his path by means of the digital contacts (as reality testing) which his walking stick makes within a given reality (Pan’s reality tests happen as his local application, i.e. the gods as Pan’s real time-form apps).
13. To enable Pan’s manifestations, specifically biological units such as the human, to navigate their environments in search of food and mates, those manifestations develop data accessing devices (such as the senses) and a data computing device that not only stores and collates vast data streams but turns these into a simulated virtual reality (map) of the sources of its actual data streams. Each living thing creates for itself inside its blind navigator (or auto-pilot) a simulation of the world outside and which it uses to navigate, i.e. to reality test the path it takes to find food and a mate. In the human the on-going screening of the internally simulated world (impacting, i.e. instructing from outside), hence its overall system’s status, is called consciousness.
14. i.e. it orders (i.e. arranges). Ordering (i.e. rules ≈ instructions that limit) templates (i.e. packs) at relative rest (or in stasis, i.e. @ min. entropy) emerge as relatively stable niches, i.e. as quantum enclaves (like whirlpools) that persist, meaning, that they survive as such and so display and transmit the features of realness and identifiability enveloped in actual time and form.
15. Such as a Turing Machine.
16. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (ca. 800 BC) the formless creatrix, i.e. the basic operating (i.e. ordering) system prior to application, was named the nirguna (no formal attributes, hence undifferentiated, hence non-selective) Brahman. Pan (or Brahman) as selective ordering system that emerged identifiable realness (to wit: sadcid or satcit) was called the saguna Brahman. Consequently all emerged real, identifiable forms, happening as niche applications of the unreal and unidentifiable B.O.S., present (momentarily) as saguna Brahman.
17. Pan, the universal, thus undifferentiated ordering template has no human (i.e. local, high complexity super-order) features such as love, compassion, mercy, hatred, envy, jealousy and so on. Pan affects automatically and indiscriminately as simple ordering device ≈ machine that generates ever more complex systems of order, i.e. elaborations of itself, and which eventually, after millions of years, meaning super-order (because superimposed) upgrades, produce the aforementioned human self-regulating features/apps. In short, every niche output (such as the human) happens as the best Pan could do under the circumstances, i.e. given the available most advanced state of complexity.