Gee wrote:
What is thinking? Not thought, but thinking. When we think, what we do is process thought. We compare, deduce, and calculate the thoughts that we now possess in order to create new thoughts. So how could a "God" have new thoughts if he already knows everything? At best, it would be redundant, but is logically not real or possible.
The only God and the Universe can be alive is if it self-generates itself in thought (in a metaphysical/metaphorical sense). That's why infinitesimal forms of life, of all kinds, are able to exist - it's so that this universe, and God, can forever be sustained and stabled.
Gee wrote:
You are anthropomorphising "God". You assume that because we think, "God" and the universe thinks. There is no evidence of this. And the human mind is not "limitless", it is in fact quite limited.
I had a neurologist explain this limiting concept to me. He explained that when we are babies, we learn to get out of bed, so we must learn to judge distances, judge our balance, move our bodies, etc. There is a lot to learn in accomplishing this very simple task. But we do not think about this every morning when we get out of bed. It becomes automatic.
If you consider how many simple tasks we accomplish in our day to day lives, then consider that our brains hold knowledge of our bodily functions that we are not even aware of, and our memories, it is easy to understand that there is a great deal of knowledge floating around in each of us. But if we were aware of all of this knowledge all of the time, we would go mad. It would be too much. We would not be able to think. So most of our knowledge is dumped into the sub/unconscious aspect of mind where it sits until we need it or forget it.
Our conscious minds must be kept clean and orderly or we can not think, because they are indeed limited like RAM in a computer. Our minds are not limited by boundaries, they are limited by focus.
The mind actually is unlimited, and is a lot more complex than what is beyond our perceptions. Evidence of this are some deeper explorations into human consciousness, which documents cases of humans experiencing things outside of this physical reality. Examples include explorations into Astral Projection, Lucid Dreaming, Meditation, etc., and are talked about in Noetics and the psychology of Carl Jung, who talks about the "Collective Unconscious".
We learn many things, and can go beyond everyday human experiences, by also simply putting in the will and the mind to accomplish things. That's why there exists polymaths, like those of the Renaissance or the Islamic Golden Age. That's because those people had curiosities great enough to put their mind into philosophy, medicine, alchemy, mathematics, aesthetics, and other various sciences of that era.
Gee wrote:
So you are saying that trees think? They are alive. What about daffodils? Crabgrass?
There have actually been many experiments done that show that plants and trees actually have senses and communicate with each other. One such examples includes researchers finding out that plants can communicate and respond via electrochemical signals.
Source:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2 ... -and-react
There's also a book called
Plants Have Senses by Brian J. Ford, who documents cases of plants and trees being conscious.
http://www.brianjford.com/soulsa.htm
Excerpt (Chapter 5):
Trees manage to grow in well-spaced patterns, as a walk through woodland will confirm. They employ mechanisms designed to prevent overcrowding, which would lead to competition for food, light, and water. Not only can plants communicate an attack by pests to other plants in the neighbourhood, but they can react to disease by chemical responses which parallel some of those seen in animals. Plants have great regenerative powers, and the way they heal themselves shows immense coordination of cellular growth. A tree from which a branch has been cut covers the site with wound tissue and makes good the damage. If you do not cut down a branch, then the tree may well do that for itself.
Trees have the ability to configure their outline during their lifetime. For example, they can shed their branches to maintain their equilibrium. An even more remarkable ability is reported by Bill Vinten in Suffolk, who reports that a tree which was partly dislodged by a gale has altered its branches to regain its balance. He observed that the tree had been left leaning down wind after the storm. Over the following years, no branches were lost from the tree, but those that remained have grown round to restore the tree's centre of gravity. We have no knowledge of how a tree does this, and the maintenance of the outline of a tree is clearly a result of its sensory awareness and is worthy of further study.
What this means is that all things are alive in that they have memory so they can think, which is why they are able to generate and grow.
Gee wrote:
Knowledge, awareness, and thinking are not the same things.
They may be different words, but nevertheless are synonymous with each other. When you think, you get knowledge, and when you have knowledge and you think, you are aware. All products of realization and life.