How do the concepts of experience reinforce the concept of panentheism?
Part II of II
...If there were no pieces of awareness experiencing, could there be total awareness?
And if not, would there be such a concept as ‘causation,’ a Causative Force?
What exists exists even if the Causative Force of what exists has no awareness of existence.
If that is the case, another question arises.
If a Causative Force has no awareness, is it ‘able’ to create existence?
Could an ‘unaware’ Causative Force create an abstract concept such as awareness?
Such thinking quickly leads to the idea of awareness existing and being composed of pieces of awareness.
In short, once again, panentheism jumps into the lead.
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Put simply, it would appear philosophy is moving into the realm of individual awareness, abstraction, what religions call the soul.
But is there such a thing as the soul? Since we can never ‘know’ ‘truth’, we must construct ‘truths’ to the best of our ability based upon the knowledge we have.
This knowledge falls into two realms: the concrete and the abstract.
The inability to know truth leads us to acknowledge we must accept both faith – what we believe, and observation – what we see.
We have only logic – what we reason, to put the two together.
We cannot reject either religion or science for observation is the sensing of the concrete which could in fact be the illusionary while faith is the sensing of the abstract which could in fact be the concrete.
Since we do not ‘know’ and most likely never will ‘know’ which is which we have little choice but to work with both in our effort to create a unified view.
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