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Cyber (Cyberspace) and Faith
Cyber
Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory and purposive systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities. The core concept of the discipline is circular causality or feedback—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 “belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion”. 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 Fuller’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 Earth’s God
There exists “an 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.”
God is, for Fuller, “the most economical term thus far intuitively formulated by humanity”
No More Second Hand God
God is a verb
the most active connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy
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I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments bf the human mechanism.
Our roles as transceivers on Spaceship Earth
It would follow from Fuller’s understanding of how God operates in the universe that man would be seen as “trans-ceiver mechanisms through which God is broadcasting.” It would further follow from this view of man that we must keep ourselves tuned to God’s wave-length – which is a technological statement of the Hassidic statement: “Where is God? Where-ever man will let Him in.”