Humanist by Reason: Participating in Divine Providence

Hello, this is Dennis Paulus. Welcome to another Open Philosophy video. In this video, I'm going to present a PowerPoint talk I gave at ICSA7, Brave New World, Genetic Engineering, Human Dignity on August 3, 2012. I wanted to thank Oscar Greenwald. I've got an email on television that my book was ready and he was kind enough to invite me to come and give a talk about my book and I have quickly tried to adapt it to the video there and so I decided that the behind the talk about is humanist by a reason participating in Dignity on Provellist. This is a climateist's theme and is treated on law and the methodology. The relevance to our conference theme is that Genetic Engineering takes evolution into our own hands. I have shown earlier that evolution manifests the scientists' design providence and human dignity is based on the same Amago Day, the same image and likeness of God by which we participate in Dignity on Provellist. His reason for participation in Dignity providence if it is, then we have a warrant for taking evolution into our hands. The warrant is not absolute but the answer is fact for God's providential rights. Human dignity is threatened by Ngarongamago Day which warns our acts. Closing a loop, human dignity is the basis for our warrant. Man with biblical art. In Genesis 1, 26 God said, where this may man and our image and likes and let him have an endover the mission of this EMPALS of the air and the beasts and the whole earth and every creeping creature that moves upon the earth. The Amago Day, the image and likeness of God that we just read about in Genesis 1, 26, has often popped to be a physical image. But of course God is the spirit and we do not look like God is invisible. So what is the image according to St. Augusta, the image of God with Venice is based on a turnitarian understanding of God. The father is the source of the turnity. In humans, the source term is the Moria which is not to be confused with our English memory, but which means essentially a intelligible being. It is the thing that we receive from God as our Creator. The Son is the logos, the word of God. He's the father of the same image and self-understanding. This is mere in our intellect which allows us to have self-awareness, to understand who and what we are, to understand the reality that is being held in existence by God. The Holy Spirit is the love binding of the father of the Son and in us, it is commissioned by Will, which allows for self-acceptance by which we accept the self that God is given us and accept what we really are. This is the rest of the people who are psychological and well-being, recognizing our true reality and accepting ourselves as we are is the basis of well-being. But this understanding is threatened by naturalism. My book provides a reason to bring more to this kind of discussion. It's major themes include my projection paradigm, God exists. The role of mind and evolution, evolution is not random, but it is intentional and the integrity of human nature. So let's look at the first thing, the projection paradigm. Projections are limited ways of knowing reality. Do you want to talk this little bit by a night experience and individual perspective and the conceptual space that we were getting that we received from our culture? We are limited ways of knowing reality. Our illustrated by the example of the house. I imagine a real house such as the one I pictured here, it's complex, it has not only a structure but it's context and its decoration even the dirt on it and the plants around it. But while we try to formulate what the house is, we do so by abstractions. For example, architects use architectural projections and that's where I get the term projection. Architectural projections are two dimensional views of the house taken from a certain perspective. The goal that we have is to develop a model using all projections. When we do this, we will be combined the projections, matching their edges. For example, the edge of the side elevation has got to match the edge of the front elevation. The result is a 3D model, but the model is not the reality. It's missing many things, many contextual details that the reality has. It's only a model. This is for their example of projections. Consider the watch that we am pale talk about and trying to prove the existence of God by reflecting on design. Naturalists would have a belief that because there are mechanisms, there are no ends. They really have no good argument against ends in nature. They really want us to focus on mechanisms to the exclusion of ends. But mechanisms in and certainly compatible, we understand the mechanism of a low watch. But that doesn't preclude the watch from happening in the telepathy. Here in this conference, we have attention between two projections. Human citizen medically determined organisms and humans has morally free agents. My second theme is God that has the source of laws. Naturalists substitute the laws of the nature for divine providence. I argue in my book, as the constant seed energy implies a lot of serving energy. So the constant seed of the laws of nature implies God as the main tenor of those laws. Thus, the laws of nature are God's providential plan for a matter. It's not a question as natural as the sin of either divine providence or the laws of nature. Rather the laws of nature are the means by which divine providence is taxor-sized. My third theme is that evolution of an incest mind. I discuss this in my article, mind or randomness and evolution. Quantum physics tells us that there are no random processes except observations and there were no observations before the evolution of a man or other intelligence lifemarks. So all the evolution proceeded without observation and therefore without randomness. The laws of nature are intentional. This is an important theme that I prove in my book. Evolution has targeted warms. Again, I discuss this in detail in my book. Evidence for target warms includes convergent evolution, punctuated evolution, and the existence of means in advance of ends. Two old kidd genes evolved long before the need for them arises. Evolution confirms the ideology, the idea that processes are directed toward ends. Aristotle makes three false viable predictions for dealing knowledge and evolution confirms each and every one. The fourth theme is an integral model of human nature. We have a tension between two conceptual spaces assigned to the description of a man and the spiritual realities of human existence. What we need is an integral model of human nature. As such a model possible, I believe it is, and to show that in my book. The integral model of human nature is based on many projections that is to say many kinds of data. Third person data including neuroscience, cybernatics which includes artificial intelligence and computers does a model of the mind. First person data like Bollywood, how awareness, agency and will, and semi-autists, how ideas represent reality. Ideas do not represent reality in the same way as ordinary external science do. Ideas are two term relationship. When I think of an apple, that thought refers to the apple directly. But when I read the word apple, I have to first recognize that it is a word that that word has to generate with an animated plot apple. And finally that thought refers to the apple. So in the case of external science we have a three-part relationship. Well in the case of our thoughts, our internal science, our ideas we have a two-part relationship. And so the two kinds of science are completely different and it only confuses the matter to try to identify one with the other. If there is a third person projection and a first person projection shouldn't there be a second person projection. Yes I think that there is and it's founded Martin Boogers Eye Valvigulations. Eye Valvigulations are subject relations and they are impossible without the recognition that we are dealing with another subject. It would be easy to avoid controversial data, but it would be power-blin. So I address it directly in detail. I consider the placebo effect which shows that our mind can often heal our body. Near death experiences which provide evidence of awareness and the absence of the measurable brain activity. Parasatology which shows that our intentions can control external objects and it shows that to 16 or 18 standard deviations weigh beyond the norm set for the existence of the new egg goes on. And finally I consider the sticolic experience by which we are directly aware of. Again this is a peculiar kind of experience because it has awareness in the absence of the content. The sticolic experience can be content free and yet they give us an awareness of reality. So the standard options for a model of human nature are physicalism which is basically materialism and it incorporates the third person projection that we find in science. It has an inadequate account of the person's projection. As David Chalmers says point out this is the hard problem which neuroscience and cognitive theories have made no progress. No one has any idea of how to reduce awareness, intentionality and consciousness to physical processes. The other model is dualism. In a car breaks both first and third person projections, but it has an inadequate account of their relation. This is the so-called mind body problem. How can mind effect body or that matter? How can our bodily senses affect our mind? It also has the problem of making personal unity problematic. If we are two sentences, how can we be a single person? Is there a third option? Yes. Before partition dualism, there was domestic high-limberism. It sees the body and soul as two projections of one person. That is to say that body and soul are not separate substances, but two ways of viewing a single person. If we view a person as physical, we're talking about the body. If we view a person as intentional and involved in spiritual activities, then we're talking about the soul. This incorporates both first and third person projections. As dualism does, but it has an adequate account of their relation. So there's no mind body problem. The adequate account is that the soul is essentially the law of the body and laws and the things that they are inseparable. They are only distinguished by reason. They are not separate in reality. However, domestic high-limberism has an inadequate account of universal laws of nature. It places all intelligent melody in the individual form. So each species has its own individual form. And there is no reason to think that universal laws apply to different species of material beings. This is very problematic and it is probably the reason why domestic high-limberism disappeared with the advent of the Italian physics. The integral model of human nature does have a solution however. The solution is my two subsystem theory of mind. What domestic high-limberism is sees the body and soul as two projections of one person. It incorporates first and third person projections. It has the same adequate account of their relationship with the soul being the law of the body. And it has an adequate account of universal laws. How is this? It is because unlike domestic high-limberism, part of the intelligent melody we can be is in this matter. Matter has dispositions to act in certain ways and those dispositions which we call the laws of nature are universal. So the two subsystem theory involves a physical subsystem, and an intentional subsystem. The physical subsystem is essentially the body, while the intentional subsystem is our soul, the law of the body, which also provides the awareness. The mind, unlike Cartesian dualism, is distributed between the body and the soul. The physical subsystem accounts for the third person projection of the mind for our real physiology. While the intentional subsystem accounts for the first person projection of the mind and our intentionality, the physical subsystem provides for data processing. And the intentional subsystem provides awareness and direction. The physical subsystem is approximately described by universal laws, but our intentional subsystem protects those laws as a shown by experiments and parasitology. Because the body provides data processing and catened buildings to the mind, damaging the body, damaging the brain, or stimulating various physical ways. We'll look back at the contents that the data processing processes as a result, our awareness will be in awareness of modified or defective contents. Thus the model is able to account for all the data on their physiology. While still allowing awareness to distinct subsystem, integration is accomplished by support nation. For example, in a living person, the laws of hydraulic serve to circulate the blood. But if the body is damaged, the laws of hydraulic have their own separate agenda and can't result in our bleeding to death. So, a reason is of the participation of the body providence. We do have a warrant pertaining evolution into our hands. The warrant is not absolute, but he managed respect for God's providential ends. And human dignity is affirmed by the Amagode which interwants our acts. Thank you very much. You can read more about this in my book, God Science and Mind, the irrationality of the naturalism.