How Cyber is your Faith?

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Cyber (Cyberspace) and Faith

Cyber

Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory and purposive systemsโ€”their structures, constraints, and possibilities. The core concept of the discipline is circular causality or feedbackโ€”that is, where the outcomes of actions are taken as inputs for further action. Cybernetics is concerned with such processes however they are embodied, including in environmental, technological, biological, cognitive, and social systems, and in the context of practical activities such as designing, learning, managing, and conversation.

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Faith

Faith, derived from Latin fides and Old French feid, is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as โ€œbelief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religionโ€. Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence.

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Faith and Technology per Buckminster Fuller

From R. Buckminster Fullerโ€™s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed, that to our knowledge, humans have on board it for two million years, not even knowing that they were on board a ship. And our spaceship is so superbly designed as to be able to keep life regenerating on board, despite the phenomenon, entropy, by which all local physical systems lose energy

Spaceship Earthโ€™s God

There existsย โ€œan infinitely greater a priori, omnianticipatory, intellectual integrity embracing and permeating the universe than that demonstrable or suggested by any known capability of any human intellect.โ€

Godย is, for Fuller,ย โ€œthe most economical term thus far intuitively formulated by humanityโ€

No More Second Hand God

God is a verb

the most activeย connoting the vast harmonicย reordering of the universeย from unleashed chaos of energy

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I see God inย the instruments and mechanisms that workย reliably,ย more reliably than the limited sensory departments bf the human mechanism.ย 

Our roles as transceivers on Spaceship Earth

It would follow from Fullerโ€™s understanding of how God operates in the universe that man would be seen asย โ€œtrans-ceiver mechanisms through which God is broadcasting.โ€ It would further follow from this view of man that we must keep ourselves tuned to Godโ€™s wave-length โ€“ which is a technological statement of the Hassidic statement: โ€œWhere is God? Where-ever man will let Him in.โ€

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