A philosophical worldview or belief system grounded on the 20th century discovery that Information, rather than Matter, is the fundamental substance of everything in the universe. It is intended to be the 21st century successor to the ancient worldviews of Materialism and Idealism. An Update from Bronze Age to Information Age. It's also a Theory – of – Everything that covers, not just matter & energy, but also Life & Mind & Love.
Noetic Science The "secret of secrets" about panpsychism is that it offers a way to solve the mind-body problem by suggesting consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, not something that emerges from complex matter.
Post 146.October 27, 2025
Cosmos Created Mind?
Consciousness and Causation
Background : I recently finished Dan Brown's new novel, Secret of Secrets, and enjoyed the intellectual thrill ride completely. Spoiler Alert! : If you are not familiar with the book, I'll reveal the "secret" hidden in plain insight : human consciousness, and its alter ego The Mind, is not generated by the brain, but is instead a signal from out-there somewhere. If so, the special "Noetic faculties" of the human animal¹ may merely be channels for alien ideas? Are these spiritual signals the distinguishing factor of homo sapiens?
The key presumption of Noetics is that Consciousness is non-local, but Cosmic (e.g. Pantheism ; Panpsychism). In recent years, speculative philosophy of Consciousness has explored a variety of angles on how the physical brain could produce the metaphysical effect we call Mind. I can under-stand that physical Causation is due to some universal force (energy : gravity). But, I find it difficult to accept that my thoughts & feelings are signals from some central transmitter, like the robotic clone army of Star Wars.
The book doesn't specify the exotic Source of the ideas we humans typically take proprietary pride in. So, I’ll explore another possibility : that natural Energy/Information is the precursor of human Consciousness
Other than as a Noetic postulate to resolve the Hard Problem of Consciousness, I'm not aware of any scientific evidence of intelligible signals being received and interpreted by the brain, except of course as energetic inputs (light, sound) from the local environment. Instead, I'm asking for philosophical reasoning about the likelihood or possibility of "non-local" inputs of meaningful signals from an intelligent source out there in the Cosmos at large
My own --- philosophical, not scientific --- musings, about the hard problem, point toward Causation (natural energy, gravity, forces) as the precursor of Consciousness in biological entities. This is a holistic interpretation instead of a reductive inference from specific observations. If so, then perhaps human awareness is a high-level function of brain processes, not a reified thing or substance like the aether. All natural processes must have some evolutionary fitness function to avoid being weeded-out by natural selection. And all physical processes, including brain functions, require Energy.
Moreover, professional scientists have recently inferred from their observations that change-causing Energy is a special form of generic Information². And ideas in the human mind are also forms of meaningful information, yes?. Therefore, practical Science points to a natural relationship between Consciousness & Causation. However, the topic of this thread is about the possibility that some Cosmic Intelligence --- (gods or aliens or overflowing black holes) the novel leaves the Source open to interpretation --- is beaming meaningful signals into our brains in order to produce the ideas that we arrogant apes assume are our own creation.
2. Energy is Information : A complex and debated concept, but it reflects the deep relationship between the two: energy is a fundamental aspect of information, as physical information requires energy to be carried, and information can be viewed as a form of energy or a measure of a system's organization. While not a simple equival-ence, theories propose that information and energy are intrinsically linked and potentially convertible, as demonstrated in a physical experiment where information was converted into energy. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=energy+is+information
Causation is the precursor of Consciousness
3.Noetic pantheism" : combines the concepts of noetic (related to the mind, intellect, and reason) and pantheism (the belief that the universe is God). A noetic pantheist would likely see the universe as a divine unity understood and experienced through the intellect and a mystical sense of knowing. This view would suggest that the divine is not a separate being but is the immanent, unified reality of the cosmos, which can be apprehended through both reason and spiritual insight.https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=noetic+pantheism 4. Naturalistic pantheism Also known as scientific pantheism, the term has been used in various ways, most notably to relate divinity with Nature and the substance of the universe. In scientific pan-theism, the divine—or in Western mono-theistic language, "God"—is associated with the whole of Nature. The phrase has often been associated with the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. In philosophy, the term frequently denotes the view that every-thing is part of Nature and can be studied with the methods appropriate for its study (i.e., the sciences). Pantheist belief does not recognize a distinct personal god, anthropomorphic or other-wise, but instead characterizes a broad range of doctrines differing in forms of relation-ships between reality and divinity.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_pantheism
End of Blog Post 146
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