Name: 聖書シリーズII: 創世記1: 混沌と秩序 (Biblical Series II: Genesis 1: Chaos & Order)
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Okay, well I thought this time that I would actually

As I said last time, I'm going to go through this,

I want to do as complete a job as possible

and of course, the probability that I'll get through the entire Bible is very low.

But we'll get through a lot of the major stories in the beginning of it

And then, you know, assuming that this all goes well

then maybe I'll try to do the same thing again either in the fall or next year.

Assuming everything is still working out properly next year.

So, last week I talked to you about a line in the New Testament that was from John,

and it was line that was designed to parallel the opening of Genesis.

And it's a really important line and I thought

Because the Bible is a book that's been written

when you get to the end, if you're the writer,

So it has this odd appearence of linearity

and you can play with time anywhere along it.

And the people who put the books together took full advantage of that,

It gives the story odd parallels in many, many places

And this is one of the major parallels, at least

from the perspective of the Christian interpretation of the Bible,

which of course includes the New Testament.

that God used at the beginning of time to speak habitable order into being.

it's not something that can be just easily dimissed as superstition

It doesn't even fit the definiton of a superstitious belief.

and what I see many of the ideas in the Bible as

that constitute the ground from which our more

articulated and explicit ideas have emerged.

And this one idea is so complicated that it's still mostly embedded in dream-like form

But it seems to have something to do with the primacy of consciousness,

and this is one of the biggest issues regarding the structure of reality,

because everyone from physicists to neurobiologists debates this.

The stumbling block for a purely objective view of the world seems to me to be consciousness.

And consciousness has all sorts of strange properties, for example:

it isn't obvious what constitutes time or at least duration in the absence of consciousness.

And it isn't also easy to understand what constitutes Being in the absence of consciousness,

Well, if a movie is running, and there's no one to watch it

- I know it sound like the tree in a forest idea, but it's not that idea at all -

if a movie is running and no one's watching it,

then in what sense can you say that there's even a movie running?

Because the movie seems to be the experience of the movie,

And there's something about the world, at least insofar as we're in it as human beings,

that is dependent on conscious experience of the world.

Now, of course, you can take consciousness out of the world and say:

well, if none of us were here, if there was no such thing as consciousness,

then the cosmos would continue running the way it is running,

but, of course, it depends on what exactly you mean by the cosmos

because there's something about the subjective experience of reality

Or at least that's one way of looking at it.

And since we're all pretty enamored of our own consciousnesses,

although they're painful, because they define our Being,

it's not unreasonable to give consciousness a kind of metaphysical primacy.

because there are physicists and they're not trivial physicists,

who believes that in some sense consciousness plays a constitutive role

in transforming the chaotic potential of being into the actuality of Being.

He actually thinks about it - he's not alive anymore, but

he actually thought about it as playing a constitutive role.

And then, from the neurobiological perspective,

counsciousness is not something we understand,

with our fundamental materialist philosophy.

It's quite frustrating if you're a scientist, but it isn't clear to me

that we've made any progress whatsoever in understanding consciousness,

even though, well, we've been trying to understand it for hundreds of years

and even though psychologists and neurobiologists and so forth

have really put a lot of effort into understanding consciousness from a scientific perspective

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