Religion
In reply to the discussion: There is a lot of talk in this forum about god [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,992 posts)Nowhere.
1) Elohim, the old name of God, both singular and plural: One and many.
2) God is consciousness.
3) Do you have any effect on the physical world? Does not your brain unfold according to deterministic principles of the atomic structure therein? So how you can you say you have free will, when everything your brain does is unfolding in the same cold and physically determined manner as the clouds in a storm?
4) Yes
5) Do your thoughts "intervene" in the deterministic unfolding the physical systems that dictate your brain state and thus all your behavior?
6) Yes, but really you can talk to anything, once you realize communication is a synchronizing between state spaces of two physical systems, often brains.
So much of the these hunts for God are looking for a description of some entity IN reality, rather than the foundations OF reality. Its like looking for the producer of the film in the film, when really you have to back up and look at the contexts of reality.