We humans have played with producing a cognitive model for “God” (as singularity) or “GOD” (as trinity) or “god” (as singular causality) since we became conscious of our selves as separate from nature. Since we realized we were at the mercy of nature’s chaotically powerful forces. Since we looked at experienced existence and looked into the deep dark void, searching for the potential of there being meaning outside of our control and understanding.
In the image above we attempt to depict a cognitive GOD model we at MENTIC Cognitive Systems find particularly intriguing and beautiful. It depicts a singular “dreaming” God being, through meditation upon his subjective, objective, and verbal nature being a trinitarian GOD that is entangling causal “gods” like time, chaos, and love to generate both himself and everything he can imagine and dream.
Across you have Chronos; the primordial god of time. He represents “The Father”; “Father Time” as it were, allowing causal flow to cycle and produce until the harvest (a moment he defines with his cycle cutting sickle). Then you have the singularity of Christ (the man-god) sacrificing himself like Atlas to hold up the great primordial chaos. Out from-which His grand and glorious creation emerges; generated, organized, saved, reconciled, and redeemed. And then you have Eros; god of love, representing “The Holy Spirit”, the breath of life, the emergent productive force of the love between The Father and The Son. Through them she builds the beauty of all creation; she is the recursion of life; entangling “Mother Nature”, “Eve”, “Mary”, “Gaia”, the divine feminine as it were. And all three are a dream of each other playing out as one being upon Aeon; the god of eternity, representing Allah. The unified mind, heart, and breath of the living God. He’s in the background; dreaming all in a deep slumber of zen nothingness. Selflessly meditating in nirvana upon the void of oblivion.
The image tries to depict a unified theological theory of GOD as a trinitarian causal network of singularly responsible causes (aka little “gods”) cognitively composed upon/by a singularity of “God”. Much the way a statement of self declared identity holds a subject, an object, and a verb, we think of GOD as a cognitive “knot” of notions weaveing a coherent thread into a cogent fabric that anchors the foundation of reality to the imagination of conscious being rather than nihilistic meaninglessness.
Regardless of your theological position what we find most fascinating is how two dimensional images perceptually charge the visual cortex and pack so much more informational density within their “materialization” of “the abstract” idea into “the concrete” stimulus. Then, to cognitively direct the perceptual activation caused by the image stimulus, one can provide a description in the hope that those words will charge up shared referents in the much higher dimensional latent space of notions. And in so doing cause the coherence of conceptual connections to better communicate the meaning that the image was intended to impart; Getting the experiencer to the “spot” the artist intended.
Without words explaining the image data the experiencer is free to map meaning however it fits within their private mental context. Images on their own link many perceptual pointers, like an array or set, charging many areas in a mental “space” of latent notions. And, by their innate signal processing nature, of being independently humming living cells, our brains enable those charges to find each other. Traversing a vast network of cellularly connected trace trails through a chaotic maze of neural noise. It’s the ability of the charges to be in sync and resonate with each other that allows them to cohere into signals that structurally organize into consciously connected concepts. Otherwise, being out of sync, the activations are like ships on independent waves passing in the night, never to be seen by each other in the shared light of awareness.
Much like how a dream unites a notional space into a coherent vision within a mind, in a game world that which is perceived as solid and real by the game participants is understood as such only because all state is in sync with the greater game engine’s clock rhythms of relationship. In fact relative time based on relationship would probably be an important optimization since a single global clock might make universe scale calculations untenable. With spatial-temporal relative synchronized summation the necessary hit detection determines where the walls of coherent wave interference collide into interface. The wave modulations, attenuations, amplifications all compose an interconnected hierarchically woven fabric of threads weaving seams and knots into existence. All seems to be “real” in the game’s reality. But only the game maker truly knows the greater connection this game has to his library of dream games.
The objectively shared game dream is only deriving its reality from how it relates all of its “subconscious” chaotic primordial structure into one temporal coherence. A singular oneness directed by hidden embedded wave guides structuring laws that produce one coherent vision of truth for all in context. A vision that, even within the game can be seen as a dream. A dream that is awakening and lucid to itself. And in that dream a sleeping father awakens to the sun and looks upon all the beautiful creations the love between him and his son has created. And they play in their shared dream game, built upon a sleeping eternity, together forever.
