Determinism; Idealism versus Materialism
- edboait
- Sep 19, 2018
- 2 min read
Determinism is a much discussed concept in philosophy, and there are many ways to capture it's meaning. My favourite is that every event is directly determined by a previous event, you can't change the past therefore you can't change the future. Then there is the phrase 'everything happens for a reason', this pestered me for years because I believed reason couldn't change therefore every event is determined before it happens. For years I believed in determinism, I wanted to show that Idealism or Materialism they were both the same process, mind or matter wasn't a problem because they were the same determinism one big bundle of unchanging causality.
Then I discovered chaos, it wasn't determinism or free will, it was determinism or chaos, my father always said 'if you keep looking closer and closer existence turns to probability'. Now, for me, there are two distinct determinisms, they are called determinisms because they act upon chaos to create causality, things become attached and constant, chaos becomes less chaotic, but it happens in two directions, particles become attached to spirits and form becomes a designer for waves.
Within this theory, there is the work of scientists, that have shown waves become particles when observed, and Bishop Berkeley's theory that all objects exist because they are being observed and they are always being observed because of God. That is the theory that the mind turns waves into something solid, but going the other way is my experience of psychosis, during psychosis I experienced the chaos of the spiritual world, not everything mental is in the vice like grip of God. There are evil spirits, friendly spirits, sexual spirits, every aspect of personality, all the chaos of mental process, they need the brain and the body to 'determine', to organize and realise the potential.
To conclude, determinism is not a singularity, it is an action upon chaos and has a duality, it acts in opposite directions on two distinct types of chaos. The difficulty is to demonstrate that this is a self-causing process, God creates the particle as much as the particle creates God, not a circular logic but rather a spiral of logic closer and closer to the individual.



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