"...indeed, i find awareness above, behind, and at the bottom of all things
that which gives plausibility to freedom of will (to a limited degree)
an eternal That (thou art That) which experiences thought and feeling without being either one
for it is the very Ground of being and consciousness itself - the universe is matter and energy experiencing itself by means of information and interpretation
the nature of intelligence is
far from beginning or ending with the human species - only our hubris would have us be so presumptuous
man is most alien to himself, yet supposes intelligence began with him - he does not see himself as the cosmic dance that he is, that between his divinity and his ego: he is Will that must overcome the latter in order to bear witness to the former, to make former and latter dance in grace and harmony (think animal grace applied further to human genius and creativity)
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intelligence is a creative process of becoming, a process of matter and energy becoming aware of itself, and thus also information - evolution is this process overcoming itself
matter does not allow consciousness, rather it is very much the other way around, for ultimately the universe is a collective representation in which we collectively
participate and experience from our own unique and
finite perspective; ours amidst an infinite number other such finite perspectives of greater or lesser scope and scale, all of which amount to infinite and timeless perspective (Pure Awareness) which negate all polarities and distinctions into a primordial unity
human experience is a
fractal of perspective, and everything we perceive, we create; and all creation (human or otherwise)
begins as a thought
man himself began as a thought, indeed the universe began as a thought - a thought which gave birth to its own moment and thus gave birth to time itself, indeed matter and energy themselves and thereby all of creation/matter/energy/information (at bottom, these are all the same thing, the Ground of Awareness described in different ways)
matter and energy become information in an intelligent and ordering sense - all science turns matter and energy into information, so too do art and philosophy
intelligence is the organizing component of awareness and energy which man essentially
is but does not himself
see - man is blind to himself
thought gives birth to energy, and energy is harnessed by intelligence to become matter and creation; it organizes itself by means of order and information so to give birth to everything from suns and planets, to biological entities (life and finite experience of 'the world') and all of that which do and do not perceive - man's ego experiences both itself and the rest of infinity through a pinhole
he does not know he participates as a creator in the total dance of creation..." -amor fati
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