Sentences with phrase «emergent universe»

If there is purpose in our emergent universe, we may now legitimately speculate that it would be present in the form of a «higher» or «deeper» dimension influencing and ordering the lower (Or surface) dimensions.

Let us explore further the role of faith in the context of an emergent universe.

In an emergent universe it is never possible, standing within a lower dimension, to reach an objectively adequate knowledge of the organizational patterns that may be operative at a «higher» one.

In an emergent universe the influence of extraneous formative causation is the ingredient required to channel the mass - energy continuum into novel and ontologically distinct levels of being.

«2 An emergent universe is an evolutionary one in which each successive phase adds something qualitatively new.

If there is a divine scheme of purposefulness enveloping and grounding the multiple levels and fields of influence in an emergent universe, then we should not expect or demand that its presence be obvious to us either.

I would now like to direct my discussion more focally toward the question of why any conceivable final causation in an emergent universe would also evade our demands for evidence.

Faith, in the context of an emergent universe, is simply the stance that we at the human level of emergence would take when we surrender ourselves to being influenced by whatever higher field there may be encompassing the cosmic hierarchy.

In the mode of being felt the divine presence in the universe is a lure or power of persuasion continually offering new possibilities of intensity and harmony to patterns of events in cosmic becoming.16 «God» is a word we may use to refer to the radical source of novelty and order in the emergent universe.17 Without such a source of novelty and order we may well ask whether there would be any emergence at all.

Thus God, as principle of order and novelty, is understood here as the creative ground of the emergent universe, giving it its very being and presenting it with whatever possibilities for further emergent self - transcendence may be relevant at each particular phase.

In this interpretation of divine care God both feels and is felt deeply by the experiential occasions that make up the emergent universe.

Our response to this question will allow us to flesh out more fully our discussion of faith as it occurs in an emergent universe.

In the evolution of an emergent universe, each «higher» development can make its initial appearance only at one particular time and place.

5 This is a remarkable anticipation of Whitehead's view in Process and Reality that God's primordial ordering of the world's possibilities (the eternal objects) is the ultimate source of novelty in an emergent universe, except that Thornton understands these possibilities to be everlasting rather than timeless.6 This reification of what for Whitehead is purely possible, needing concrete embodiment in the actual world, leads Thornton to conceive of the eternal order as absolutely actual in its unchangeableness, identical with God.

The promise of God to Abraham, Israel, and the Church, therefore, may be viewed cosmologically (and not just historically) as a special instance of the general breaking in of God's promise to the entire emergent universe.

He quotes physicist Brian Swimme: «The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human,» and points out that this sense of an emergent universe identical with ourselves gives new meaning to the Chinese sense of forming one body with all things.

How such purpose might specifically manifest itself in out emergent universe, though, is the subject of the following chapter.

Therefore we must postulate the presence in our emergent universe of a field of organizing factors, extraneous to triggering circumstances, that allow new types of order and functioning to burst forth and to persist.

And it is as such that I shall explore its possibilities for illuminating the nature of the extraneous causal factors required in an emergent universe.

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@Chad «the really fascinating aspect of Alexander Vilenkin Kinematic Incompleteness Theorem (the Borde Guth Vilenkin Theorem) is that not only demonstrates that OUR universe had a beginning, but it goes further to demonstrate that ANY universe (Multi-verse, Eternal Inflation, Cyclic Evolution, and Static Seed (Emergent Universe), etc.) that has a Hubble expansion greater than zero had a beginning.»

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

seems to simply be saying that while nothing is conclusive or «proven» the evidence seems to support a physical universe containing the components necessary for the emergent properties of things like consciousness and self - awareness.

Following Polanyi, I shall argue that emergent novelty and ontological discontinuity can enter into our evolving universe without in any way violating or disrupting the physical continuity that obtains at the molecular level.

I would like now to add one final point concerning the cosmic location of «faith» in terms of the emergent, evolutionary universe.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

Because of our contemporary awareness of the evolutionary, narrative character of the universe, and the growing sense of our species» continuity with this emergent process, we are now in a position to interpret the long search of religion as a prolongation of the cosmic struggle toward more intense beauty.

Perhaps, many suggest, it's a basic rule or pattern of this universe that It gives rise to ever more complex states of affairs, ever new and different emergent realities.

For, in line with this proposal one can postulate that the universe or cosmic process is at any given moment an all - encompassing «structured society» or structured field of activity for all the actual entities emergent within it.4 Each actual entity, therefore, is able to derive its defining characteristic or common element of form from the ongoing structure of the society or societies to which it belongs.

For a God who dwells in and relies upon the various strata of cosmic process would be «dependent» not only on the performance of sub-human emergent dimensions, but also on the considerably less predictable interpersonal processes of human self - integration (Or comparable «conscious» processes in other corners of the universe).

According to the ideas of emergence and value that we have presented there is a fragility in the universe that appears in direct proportion to the degree of intensity and complexity of emergent phenomena.

At the pole of primary perception, according to hints given by art, poetry and especially religious expression, we have a dim feeling of the entire universe as well as a feeling of being assimilated by the processive universe in its deeper emergent comprehension of lower dimensions.

Yet this derogation of the language of religion as incongruous with what we know scientifically about a one - dimensional universe, may turn out to be inappropriate in terms of an emergent, multidimensional one.

But in an emergent, hierarchical universe faith is the kind of knowing whereby we at the human level of evolution leave ourselves open to being grasped by a more encompassing field of influence.13 In the cosmic hierarchy the lower can not comprehend the higher.

Emergent evolutionists argued for the miraculous emergence of life and of mind in a previously lifeless and mindless universe.

In Barbour's universe, on the other hand, time is emergent: It is a measure of how space changes but not a fundamental component of it.

More recently, Verlinde suggested an alternative called «emergent gravity,» in which gravity is a byproduct of quantum fluctuations and dark energy (another scarcely understood phenomenon, one that seems to be causing the universe's expansion to accelerate).

Emergent gravity also needs to explain the large - scale structure of the universe as well as the cosmic microwave background.

Calming the riots that have swept American streets ever since J.J. Abrams announced that Dan Trachtenberg's Valencia — which Abrams is producing through his Bad Robot company — is now going by the title 10 Cloverfield Lane, the Star Wars director and part - time enigmatic mastermind has assured fans that he has a plan for the suddenly emergent «Cloverfield universe.»

The emergent content acts as a collectively created story and universe, with the players directly involved in the content evolution.