The gospel according to Joseph Through the grandeur of my significance
to the grandeur of my insignificance,
I wonder.
To wonder is to produce more questions than answers.note; if the following gets tedious skip ahead to What is one ?
What am I?
If existence is not of flesh and bone, then what is a human being?
It is a consciousness.Man has five senses that record changes in the environment over a span of time. For exampe if we introduce perfume into air we smell the perfume until our sense of smell becomes accustomed to it. Then we smell it no longer. In order to discover reality, that is what perfume is, we must sense the change in our environment and decide what happened to our environment. We do this by asking what the cause of the change is, that is observing the look of the perfume, the opening of the perfume bottle, the feel of the perfume and the sound of the perfume splashing out. All of these are also changes in our environment. We then conclude that perfume was introduced into the air by putting all of these observations of changes into the same category and associating all of them with the reality of opening a perfume bottle. By integration of our sensual experiences we create reality.
Mathematically each person takes the changes in their environment over a span of time and integrates it to discover what they call reality. We have no knowledge of reality other than what we’ve produced by integration of sensual experience.
Let us call r reality, t time, and f the reality function. Then r =f (t). Our observations then are the first derivative of reality with respect to time, dr/dt. This is exactly what we sense.
Now from calculus we must note that there are an infinite number of functions that have the same first derivative. Therefore, if we make our sensual observation we establish one value for a first derivative. If we then integrate this observation, we discover an infinite number of possibilities that could have happened to the environment. However, if we make many observations over the same span of time, we would have many first derivatives. When we integrate a series of first derivatives, we greatly reduce the possibilities of reality.
A person creates reality by integration of these derivatives. As he performs integration he as easily creates realities that did not occur as those that did by selecting any function which has the set of first derivatives he has observed. By this process, he creates a reality that he never observed; he imagines things.
Is the model consistent with scientific witness?
Let us consider the brain as a mass of cells that can hold an electrical charge by being polarized. Let us consider that these cells are electrically connected to each other in some specific way, the way of connection carried by DNA, and that a number of these cells are connected to sensory nerve endings.
We know that to induce a current we must change the position of iron relative to a conductor. Also we know that if the position of iron does not change relative to the conductor no current is induced. Let us assume that when nerve endings are subject to change, they induce a current to the brain that polarizes a brain cell or a set of brain cells.
Every integration and differentiation is a linear transform and therefore can be stored by a matrix; any matrix can be stored binarily. Therefore, these differentials could be stored as an arrangement of cells that can be charged and discharged.
Putting this electrical and mathematical theory together leads us to observe that a change in environment induces an electric current which charges a cell in the brain. If we call this charge a differential, then the brain stores sensual experience as a mass of differentials. This process of storing differentials is called differentiation.
In summary of our notation, the process of observing differences in nerve endings is differentiation, and the process of combining these differences so as to predict what is being implied about our environment is called integration. The more differentials you have, the more reality you can produce, whether it is real or imaginary.
Let us return to a man who has been stimulated until every nerve ending storage cell is polarized and then proceed to stimulate him one more time. Mathematically and electrically he would induce a polarization in an adjoining cell. This polarization would be storage of the change in differentials rather than in environment. Again the man would build up a store of differentials. These are called second derivatives, changes in derivatives.
Now if we integrate these second derivatives, we again have an infinite number of possible first derivatives corresponding to each second derivative. If we consider the brain as an integrating mechanism, it is likely while integrating second derivatives a first derivative is found or produced which did not induce this second derivative. When this happens, thought is created for he not only creates a reality that never occurred, he knows it did not occur.
There are third, fourth, and more derivatives in calculus. The depth to which man can integrate is unknown, but if we consider a brain to be a structure of cells that can only integrate and differentiate, people could be described as an animal with a brain more organized to higher level differentiation than other animals.
There may be physical significance to each level of differentiation. For example attitudes may be third derivatives, or maybe sixth derivatives. With the calculus model of personality it may be discoverable and useful. At least a lot of old people could have fun talking about learning models, heredity via DNA and behavior.What is everything?
It is appropriate to define “everything “ basically. At the same time we will put the terms “ my fate, our fate, fate, fate unfolding and relationships “in perspective for later use. Let us begin by using show and tell.
Point to something. Point to something else. Do it over and over. The union of all those things is part of everything.
Think of something. Think of something else. Do it over and over. The union of all those thoughts and all those things is part of everything.
Consider the relationship between each thing and each thought. Consider the relationship between sets of relationships. The union of all these things and all these thoughts and all these relationships is part of everything.
Consider all the judgments, associated sensory experiences, and feelings related to all relationships between any two or more things, thoughts, experiences, feelings and judgments within my experience from birth to death and this is part of everything. Call this subset of everything “my fate “.
Consider my fate and your fate during the same life cycle. They differ by the time it takes light to travel from me to you. They are bounded by life and death.
Consider the union of all fates, such that all things, thoughts, experiences, feelings and judgments previously noted have fates. This union is bounded by existence rather than life and death; that is as long as there is something there is fate. Call this subset of everything “our fate”.
Our fate is part of everything. It is bounded by the speed of light for we cannot sense energy that does not reach us. (Our fate is our past, present and future. That all important fate unfolding is our future.)
The fate to which “we” belong is bounded within one time/space frame. Consider those fates separated from us by more than the speed of time and light. This is a subset of everything. The union of all fates (unbounded by time/space) is everything imaginable. Call this subset of everything “ fate “. Like counting, the process continues.What is the nature of everything and what is reality?
Reality is the conclusion of what our senses tell us. We conclude that there is mass and energy as a result of our basic experience. This is reality. It is not the nature of everything yet it is our only source of understanding.
Remember from “the rules of peacemaking conversation” that you learned the meaning of “to be“ basically. I’m going to ask that you stretch your mind and put aside your basic understanding of existence (“to be”). Discount that understanding as only a convenience of understanding because as a model it cannot explain the universe let alone everything.
Please don’t try to put your hand through a brick quite yet. Give reality its due. Mass is real. It just doesn’t have an absolute existence.
Now here comes the first stretch of your mind. I’m going to ask that you imagine that the masses are not there but rather the spaces between them are there. Further the spaces are not spaces but “how the masses are held together” (they are relationships). The nearest thing I can come to describe “ how masses are held together “ is Newton’s universal law of gravitation. These “gravitations ” (also called “how masses are held together”) are as countable as masses.
Now reach deeper into your mind. For every mass there are as many gravitations as there are other masses. Each mass is the result of its gravitations. The gravitations came first.
Now back to reality. We say air is odorless. Consider the example of introducing perfume into the air. We notice it is there until we become used to it. Then we don’t notice it anymore. We only sense change in our environment.
Hold very still when you sleep and when you first wake up you cannot tell where your hands lie. You must move them. We only sense change in our environment.
We move through space at breakneck speed and do not sense it. Yet when the car breaks we feel that. We only sense change in our environment.
Now back to your mind. Of all the spaces where you could go some are occupied and some are not. Yet they are all influenced by gravitations. I allege that where the gravitations are constant there are no masses and where gravitations are changing there are masses. I admit that this allegation is the result of the need to make sense of the universe. It does however appear to be consistent with the rest of our sensory experiences.
Then mass is the result of changing gravitation rather than gravitation being the result of mass and distance.
Here comes the model. Rather than beginning with mass (the things or the thoughts) I begin with gravitations (relationships). I have neglected to call gravitations force because in Newtonian physics it is a dependent variable. No longer. Now I am going to use the word “ gravitations” and specify it as the independent variable.
Gravitations are the parameter. We do not sense gravitations. We sense the change in gravitations. We call the integration of the changes in gravitations over time at a moment, energy, and the integration of the changes in gravitations over distance from a point, mass.
I reiterate here for the sake of the physicist. Not mass but gravitations are used as the basic independent variable. This is in contrast to Newtonian physics.
When we “touch ” a mass our lifetime empirical record calls it real. However scientific study seems to conclude that mass is mostly space and the particles in that space are mostly space. I ask you to continue the process and note that the limit of the process implies there is no mass. That is there is no such thing as “ thing” even though we touch it.
Now all our senses work as we move forward in time at the speed of light (the speed of light, which is the standard for measuring distance, is the speed of time). At the same time as we are moving forward in time at the speed of light distance is expanding from every point at the speed of light. Hence time and distance are always changing, in our case moving forward. It would also explain how little particles appear or disappear traveling near the speed of light (the proof is that computers work). It would also explain how black holes seem to distort time.
We are not aware of those gravitations that do not change over distance. Hence we are unaware of the resulting masses. This is consistent with quantum theory, all that material with half turn numbers (in Star Trek referred to as anti matter).
It appears then that what we call reality (mass and energy) is more accurately our integration of the change in everything. Everything is composed of gravitations (akin to spirit). We move along our fate, a time line in everything. We are aware of very little and only that which changes in time and distance.
We call mass and energy real when in fact they are manifestations of the changes in everything.Time, a model to explain black holes, the Big Bang theory and accelerated expansion.
We know that time and distance are measured relative to each other. We have no clue as to their absolute speed or direction. If one curves the other curves correspondingly. In our fate the ratio between the speed of light and the speed of time is one.
Let’s look at a location in everything where the ratio between the speed of time and the speed of light is less than zero or greater than one. Being bounded by the speed of light we cannot sense them. Where the ratio is greater than one we are smaller or larger by the speed of light. This leaves an awful lot of everything to which we cannot sense.
Where the ratio is negative either time or distance runs backward. This would explain why a black hole has mass and no distance at a fixed location.
Consider time as curvilinear rather than linear, that is time has a real and imaginary component. In addition consider that our fate unfolds on a spherical model. Then the Big Bang theory at a moment passed the time of the big bang would have time moving at constant rate with a large imaginary component and a small real component. (Time of the present would have a high real component and a small imaginary component) Black holes would be where time is running in the other direction. Accelerated expansion would be toward the intersection of real and imaginary time on the other side of the big bang. Time would be curving back on itself. Whether there would be a creation moment or a corresponding black hole would depend on the nature of that intersection on the other side of a spherical geometry model. Creation on our side of the sphere would not be part of our fate because our fate does not cross real time =zero on our side of the sphere.The only difference between gravitations and Newtonian force is that the gravitations are the parameter rather than dependent on mass and time. In order to use the concept of calculus and its past history consider that force is the parameter. Force is the independent variable of everything. Now we can use classical notation. In the language of calculus;
First a review using classical physics notation.
Time and distance depend on force. Mass and energy depend on time and distance.
We do not sense force. We sense the change in force. Our reality is described as dF. dF is the partial derivative of F with respect to distance plus the partial derivative of F with respect to time.
Wherever force is constant in everything there is no change in force and therefore dF is zero. However mass can be explained as the integral of all changing forces relative to one location. Mass only appears constant in our fate because we cannot escape our fate to make a measurement.
Our reality is determined by integrating (a proper subset of) everything. All the non-zero differentials integrated about a location manifest as mass at that location and mass at all other locations. All the non-zero differentials integrated about a time give us energy.
All the differentials which are zero are not sensed; that is the integration of nothing is nothing. They would however explain the existence of all that material with half turn numbers.
Look again at the curvilinear model of time. Our fate is a curve on a sphere. Our sphere represents the proper subset such that the ratio of the speed of time to the speed of distance is one. The only fates that we can easily realize must lie on this sphere and intersect our fate.
There are other spheres where the ratio between the speed of time and the speed of distance is constant and not equal to one. Since the spheres are concentric and do not intersect so the lines on the spheres do not intersect. That’s a lot of everything of which we are not aware.
However, at great distances near black holes (singularities) it appears that the ratio between the speed of time and the speed of distance is not constant. Is our fate line on one sphere?
At the center of the concentric spheres the ratio between the speed of time and the speed of distance is 0 while at the farthest distance the ratio is uncountably large (and there‘s always farther out). Let us treat this ratio as a dimension. Let us put the range and domain of this dimension into the spherical model rather than the plane. Now it turns back on itself.
Repeat the process of dimension creation with each new concept. Is everything bounded by dimensions? If there are infinite dimensions “space” has no meaning.
If not in time and space, where do the singularities exist? We must change our concept from an array of points in space to points “ who knows where”. To get some basic understanding of “who knows where” consider the basically understood term “void”.
“Void” is defined by absence, emptiness, without time and space. “Void” is the absence of everything. This sure doesn’t tell you what it is. That’s the problem with basic understanding.
We have an array of singularities in the void.How am I related to everything?
Does my foot have a separate consciousness?
If it does I am no more aware of it than the consciousness of the tree.Since the integration of matter is force, the integration of reality is timeless, massless, distantless “that which is” . This would make “that would is” rather than mass the constant of what is. This explanation would be consistent with quantum mechanics by including other realities.
This would make “ that which is” ethereal. It would be consistent with timeless all-powerful all present existence . This would be consistent with most of the world's concept of the union of God and everything.
Our fate, our reality, is the integration of “that which is” along one time curve. Our universe is the interpretation of our fate at one instant.
Nothing and everything are mathematical reciprocals. One is the product of nothing and everything. One is “ what is” . No matter how you model it, the model is the invention called life. If you take nothing and put it together forever you end up with everything.
There is magic called clustering in the universe. It puts nothing together forever. There is , was and will always be the uncountable clustering that is the one thing, the everything.
To classically order the universe clusters were called real and clusterings were called nonexistent. In this way respectively we specified them as mass and force . We randomly selected mass to be called real. If we had selected the other way around we would have found quantum mechanics earlier . We would call relationships real and objects unreal .
The universe is one. To understand it we order it as a turbulent maze of relatively uniform space. We add time. This gives us a subset called fate. We select a cross section of fate and call it a universe.If we were to compare the calculus model of consciousness with the calculus model of everything the models have the same structure. The independent variable of our consciousness is change, which is difference over time. Just like when there is no difference in force over distance we sense no mass, where there is no difference in sensation over time there is no consciousness. At the first derivative level we integrate changes in gravitations and record these as differentials. We say we are conscious of mass (remember that the integration of all gravitations about a point is mass). Therefore the model of consciousness overlaps the model of everything at the first derivative level, that is our consciousness senses changes in the environment and changes in the environment compose reality.
Once again I ask you to stretch your mind and go through the process you went through with reality. First view your consciousness in a two dimensional format of matrix. By making observations value is placed in the columns and rows yielding a three-dimensional model, such that the columns and rows are restricted to our consciousness. In the model of everything the restriction was the bounds of our fate.
Like our individual fate is less than fate so our individual consciousness is less than consciousness. Like our fate lends itself to the spherical model that explains our fate as a subset of everything, our consciousness through the spherical model explains our consciousness as a subset of consciousness.
That would mean within the restriction of myself I am a microcosm of fate and fate is a macrocosm of me. Further, without the spherical restriction I suspect that the multi-dimensional model of everything, that is an array of singularities in the void, is the most accurate model of consciousness (though not the most useful). That would mean that consciousness is a microcosm and macrocosm of everything and everything is a microcosm and macrocosm of consciousness. Consciousness, like everything, is a singularity composed of singularities within the void.What is one?
After much to do about nothing I come to the same conclusion as Lao Tsu that I paraphrase, “ the Tao is the essence and the all”.
One is the uncountable clustering of nothing,
the essence.
One is our bounded simplification of everything,
the all.There are moments in wordless meditation when I sense essence. However, as a practical matter, essence is useless for by being everything it cannot be manipulated.
There are moments in wordless meditation when I sense all. However, as a practical matter, the pieces being nothing are without meaning.
There are two natural uncountables, everything and nothing, one and zero. We seem to need some ones we can count.
How do we bound everything? We pick and choose. We chop up everything into pieces that have meaning and that we can count. By naming the pieces we have something to count. We give words to the wordless and then count the words.How do we pick and choose?
We must define a unit that has a bounded meaning and can be usefully manipulated. We must come up with ones. How we pick the names and choose to place them makes them meaningful.
An apple in the eyes of an artist has a different meaning than an apple in the hand of a cook. When the cook and the artist are cutting down an apple tree, they don’t bother with defining apple. They define cutting down the tree.
When two cooks talk about an apple they differentiate between tart and sweet, crisp and soft and more. Rather than talking about apples, they talk about Macintosh, Granny, or Delicious.
To make a useful unit, then, we must eliminate all those parts of the idea that don’t concern us and include all those parts that do concern us.
When dealing with new concepts we coin our own words by agreement. When two people agree that they will agree they are reasonable. They are only agreeing on what to call something. They can change their mind about the meaning and invent a new word later.So where does counting come from?
The natural order is called chaos. Although I find it beautiful, I cannot tell what part lies between what other parts. It is useless.
“ Assemble the bicycle “ has a well-defined meaning to every father who has ever assembled a bike on Christmas Eve. The need to order the events is clear to the father.
We can associate any set with any other set in the way we select. We might just as well pick an association useful in establishing order that is less than chaotic.
We might view an apple as a set of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The proteins we might view as a set of molecules. The molecules we might view as a set of protons, electrons and neutrons. The protons we might view as a set of Quantum’s. Putting these associations in an order we have the symbols, quantum, proton, molecule, protein and apple.
Starting with the apple again we might view it as a subset of the tree, which is a subset of the forest, which is a subset of the land, which is a subset of the earth, which is a subset of the universe, which is a subset of everything. Putting these associations in an order and combining them with the above set of symbols we have the following order of symbols; quantum, proton, molecule, protein, apple, tree, forest, land, earth, everything. This is called a continuum. It is a set of symbols in an order. The order is created by the user in as useful a way as possible.
One of the most useful continuums is the real number line. You make change by associating quantities with numbers on the real number line, manipulating to arrive at a final number on the real number line and associating that point was a quantity. It has the wonderful characteristic that every number has neighbors. Mathematicians call this “betweeness”.
The symbol apple lies at the intersection of many continuums. It lies between tree and protein. On another continuum it lies between fruit and food. On another continuum it lies between freedom and sin. In fact if you select a unit and accept the spherical model for everything then every continuum turns back on itself . Then every unit is between everything.
By deferring to the context with which we wish to deal rather than some absolute knowledge of a symbols meaning, we can establish a useful definition. We are freed from preconceptions. We have a definition bounded by context.
Note that the units we define here (bounded simplifications of everything) are merely real and not the result of integrating changes in relationships (the uncountable clustering of nothing). Reality is useful because it is infinitely countable.Choosing God
God is the synthesis of the righteousness of man.
God is the flakes of the best of us all.
I wish my life to be a prayer to God.I am part of everything. I once thought it was true. I now believe I chose it. Therefore there is the consciousness of which my consciousness is part.
I want to pray. I choose an understandable bounded simplification of everything. I select everything in my taste that is human and I call it God. Now I have a useful functioning human like mediator through whom I can pray. I like to pray.We who are Christian are brother or sister to Jesus.
Our lord and master is the God of Abraham who is our uncle.
We who are Jew are brother or sister to Moses, a cousin of Jesus.
Our lord and master is the God of Abraham who is our uncle.We who are Muslim are brother or sister to Mohammed a cousin of Moses and Jesus. Our lord and master is the God of Abraham who is our uncle.
And there should be peace and love between us.And the God of Abraham had brothers in Krishna and the lost father of the Hindus and others.
They had sons and daughters in Lao Tsu, Buda, Confucius and Masaw and others and they are our cousins.
And there should be peace and love between us.And the grand sire of us all what was and what is and will be, the hole and its spirit, the holy spirit that from which we are made also called Nirvana, Tao, Tokpela, the Universe and other names are from which we come.
And there should be peace and love between us for we are of the same family and the same flesh.
And of the same flesh there are the beasts and the plants and the earth and the stars.
And there should be peace and love between us.And we sustain ourselves by eating of the beasts and the plants as the earth sustains itself by decaying our flesh.
We thank God for our daily bread out of respect for the spirit. We ask for a funeral blessing at each death out of hope for the spirit. At communion we eat the flesh of Jesus out of love of the spirit.All paths lead to God.
Intolerance requires the denial of doubt. For myself I have beliefs that keep me sober. I go to my church, alcoholics anonymous, to enforce the denial of doubt. It seems that the denial of doubt requires maintenance.
However I realize that it is important to maintain some doubt for it is in my taste to “do unto others as I would have others do unto to me”. By accepting other people I give everyone the right to decide everything for themselves. As to their ideas I will be tolerant. I will give them the benefit of my doubt. I may be wrong about everything.
If your need requires an absolute denial of doubt I ask that you wonder. If you cannot give other religions the benefit of your doubt consider tolerating the beauty of all the religious myths and legends of the world. They all at least seek God.Nothing above is alleged to be the truth,
The point is not what we wonder but that we wonder.