Science is powerful… but it doesn’t do everything we sometimes think it does!
At its heart, science is about building models that help us predict things!
* Physics tells us what will happen if we drop a ball!
* Neuroscience tells us what brain regions light up when we think!
* Weather models tell us if we need an umbrella tomorrow!
But notice something: “None of these actually explain why things exist (or happen) in the first place!”
* Why does time exist?
* Why does the world exist?
* Why does Consciousness exist?
Science can describe how these things behave… and predict what they’ll do… “but it doesn’t tell us why they are here!”
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Imagine you had a little black box that could predict the weather perfectly!
Push a button and it says… “Sunny tomorrow!”
You’d be amazed!
But, if your child were to ask you… “Yes, but why will it be sunny?”
In the case… pointing to the box isn’t really an answer!
That’s the situation we’re in with Consciousness!
The best scientific theories can describe it… maybe even predict it… But, they don’t tell us why it exists!
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This is where BioPanentheism comes in!
It doesn’t compete with science!
It doesn’t throw away physics, biology, or neuroscience!
Instead, it picks up the question science can’t answer:
“Why is there ‘Experience’ at all?”
The answer BioPanentheism offers is this: “Life/Sentience Itself is the channel through which the Cosmos/Omnia Experiences Reality!”
Every Living Thing carries a Spark of Sentience… and as its complexity grows… so does its ‘Depth of Awareness‘ …which we call Sapience!
SO!
Omnia… as the ‘Universal Experiencer,’ doesn’t hover above the world!
It Feels… and Lives... Reality... through Biology... and through Us!
THAT is the starting point!
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BioPanentheism begins where science leaves off!
SO!
What is Omnia?
It’s not GOD!
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It’s not the “Flying Spaghetti Monster!!!!
It’s not a Supercomputer…
AND IT’S NOT SAL-9000! (Sorry Sal!)
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SO WHAT IS IT!!!!!!!
(Maybe Islam has the best idea!)
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Keywords: BioPanentheism, Omnia, consciousness, science and spirituality, why consciousness exists, experiential philosophy.
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