Musings on Immortal Souls ~ II. CONSCIENCE AND FREE WILL AND COMMUNICATIONS

CONSCIENCE AND FREE WILL AND communications	V	034
026.         There are other types of communications within processors and between processors which deal with monitoring what’s going on internally, what data is being processed and what actions are to happen. In a computer and other equipment, monitoring devices are installed to help prevent unwanted events. When something unwanted is attempted the computer can shut down, the desktop can freeze, raise alarms, issue warnings and other “no-no’s”, based on system design. In man similar things occur both in our bodily realm, and in the spiritual realm.	026.00	035
027.         In the bodily realm, man’s designer put in reaction messages as feeling sleepy, hungry, pain, having chills, … In the spiritual realm messages are recognized in dealing with doing or wanting to do or remembering past deeds of good and evil. This monitoring function is called a conscience. This is how our Designer alerts man that what he is doing is good or evil.  We feel soulful pleasure, and at times psychological and physical pleasure for recalling, doing or contemplating doing good deeds. We often feel shame concerning our evil deeds. Some of these alerts can be called ‘promptings”	027.00	036
028.         In our souls we feel promptings concerning doing good or evil deeds. We are aware that thoughts about the pro’s and con’s of doing good or evil occur. Unlike the computer, we can freely choose what we will do. That is because our Designer gave us a free will, complete with an internal “handbook” of the Natural Law [a list of do’s and don’ts.] In the computer there is a list of do’s and don’ts also. The computer has to operate according to the list until its designer. A “hacker” can enter the computer and change the list and modify or add software. Man has the power to “hack” his own soul by creating his own personal (overwriting God’s list) list of do’s and don’ts to use as his personal guide to actions. Man is not able to overwrite completely the resulting reactions of shame installed by his Designer. However, as time goes on and man continues to “hack away” at the table of shame responses, these reactions of shame dim. The original list of do’s and don’ts is still imprinted in his soul.	028.00	037

 

COMPUTER of MAN of GOD	VI	038
029.         My original proposition that “God is to man as man is to computer” can be reversed to say, “Computer is created by man who was created by God”. By doing ‘reverse engineering’, using the Principle of “Effect-to-Cause”, and using “analysis-synthesis” we can arrive at a more illuminated understand of higher forms of “cognition”. One could arrive at concepts which would assist them to better comprehend familiar things in their current life. It also would open new avenues of wonderment. So by going from 0’s & 1’s to the brain’s flesh and blood, synapses, etc, we can get clearer idea about functionality of a soul.	029.00	039
030.         Incorporating into the exploration of cognition, the “stimulus-response” function of material beings at the levels of man, animal, vegetable and ‘mineral’ will also reap many more concepts. I hope to address these later.	030.00	040
031.         Generically we usually describe the composition of a computer system in terms of input, processing, and output. Is there another prime requirement? When you get a computer, it rarely is ready to go. You have to switch it on.  If it has its power source, then switching it on means that you are off and running – so too, the internal system operations. If there is no imbedded power source (battery) then you have to plug into one. As long as you have power your system is alive. So power is another component that must be present.	031.00	041
032.         If we look at man, we can say that man has input [5 external senses], processing [brain and mind], and output [various forms of external bodily functions]. Then what power source does man have? You don’t go to Radio Shack for it. There is no external receptacle; but man is alive. “Alive and kicking” is a common expression which indicates life, even in the womb. With man we don’t have to get him from the ‘factory’ before we can energize him. Often a slap on the rear end really gets its body going good at birth; but life already exists in him. Is life “installed” in the ovary after being energized with sperm? If so, then the life is a material life, without an immaterial component – not much different from an animal.	032.00	042
033.         I believe that man (Adam) was created by God with an immaterial soul as the life source within his body. God created the process of ‘manufacturing’ more people through the procreative function, wherein the sperm and egg merge and God creates an individual soul to produce an embryo. That moment is called “conception”. This gives each person an immaterial and eternal soul in a material body, distinct from any other soul at conception. Parents can’t create the soul because they cannot produce immaterial and eternal objects; but they produce our mortal bodies. Our mortality means that our body will corrupt; but our soul, from God, will live on throughout eternity. So the parents ‘manufacture’ the body with functionality of growth, assimilation, and reproduction along with our “mother board’ imprinted with a double helix describing our human essence. DNA studies will continue for years to understand our makeup. Today we use the results to develop new understandings, new approaches on corrective remedies, and many more areas of study and applications.	033.00	043
034. If DNA is strictly limited to body, I assume Adam got it from God. Whatever, his DNA came from God. How about Eve? If Adam’s rib was used wouldn’t Eve’s DNA be similar to Adam’s DNA or did God give her a new DNA [I don’t think so.]? If Adam was the first human, DNA studies being conducted probably do reverse engineering back towards Adam. However, if the story of Noah is true and only eight people were on the Ark, all others perished. Then the DNA line from them back to Adam and from Noah and the other seven forward in time needs to be explored. Does each soul have a spiritual DNA? I believe each person has their own unique “fingerprint.” God is aware of the birds in the air, the numbering of the hairs on your head, …. In some mysterious way this fingerprint has a spiritual DNA structure which powers our physical DNA structure.  Humans have differing talents which probably are related to the gifts installed by God at conception. Are these gifts passed on to one’s children. There is a lot of evidence indicating that. Is puzzlement!	034.00	044
035.      Man, with his eternal and immaterial soul, is a person, with or without body. This soul also would have the powers of input, processing, output, and power. What about this immaterial power? Mysterious to say at the least; but it is worth examining. In the first grade, the nuns taught me that God is everywhere. EVERYWHERE is a most important concept. As a child, it was a ‘wonderment’, not a ‘puzzlement’ as it is now. I also learned that God created the universe – more wonderment, more puzzlement. We also learned that we were made in the image and likeness of God – “how about that”! The nuns didn’t discuss the Principle of Cause and Effect. We know that there are laws governing the action of the universe. Have you ever wondered what would happen if the Law of Gravity or the Law of Magnetism was suspended. Think about it! How about the suspension of the Law of Cohesion in terms of our clothes? Wouldn’t we look silly in the nude! The point is that God is everywhere. Wherever He is, He is there in some way. His power sustains life [sustains the life He gave us] and the Laws of the Universe. [How thankful we should be, that God sustains us!]	035.00	045
MORE ON COMMUNICATION	VII	046
036.         Now it is important to dwell further on the interactions or communications into, within, and out of an immaterial soul. What is the language that is used, if there is any? We easily understand how communications work in our computers – bits, bytes, different parts of the spectrum, etc. convey data into, within, and out. We translate info into the ‘language’ understood, by the receptor else we have babble. So a system has to have the process for conversion to a recipient’s language. We know this from the experience of man. Here, we are talking about the language used by an immaterial soul. Who would be the immaterial recipients? God? Angels? Good angels? Bad angels? Saints? Souls in Purgatory?	036.00	047
037.         Remember the biblical story of the Tower of Babel? That’s a real puzzlement! As the tower was being built, did the people only have one language? Did Adam have a verbal language before Eve was created? The Bible said that Adam named the animals, probably so that he could talk to them. Did verbal language start at the creation of Eve or after the Sin of Adam and Eve? Did Adam devise a language for him and Eve to use or was it only soul-to-soul, ESP? After their fall, did they have to form a language? When they had children, it seems they had to have a language. Was this language in use, in its original form or in a spin-off dialect, at the time of the “Tower of Babel”? These are important considerations, especially for those that explore the origin and history of language.	037.00	048
038.         I think the soul develops his soul language, using the cognition functions of identification and contradiction which differentiates objects but the relational aspects of one object to another and one relationship to another. Think of the unending strings of words and symbols to describe the size of the gap between identity “1” and contradiction “0”.  Look at the symbols we use in science to represent the relationship between objects. Whether our souls receive input from immaterial beings or through our senses, the natural cognition process defines and organizes the data and relationships. These are stored along with the input in our soul [for immaterial input] or in our brain as sense phantasms.	038.00	049
We then perform analysis, abstraction, synthesis and other cognitive functions to generate new ideas, images, etc. In this way we find ourselves in a learning curve limited by experience, dysfunctional problems in our “fleshware”. [Our bodies, fleshware, contain imperfections occurring from conception to the present]. Keep in mind that the soul “keeps on ticking” as designed by God. Unfortunately bodies do have imperfections, some of them are major.	039.00
039. (cont.)        We can teach others our language as well as learn new languages from others. Taking languages as a whole, it is a Babel of “babble”. Ponder on the instant that there was no understanding of one another’s words at Babel. Did God pull the plug on their linguistic function in all of the people so that there was no language? Did they use only sign language? There are many postulations possible; but could we identify the correct one? We only have to look at the existing languages today to marvel how inventive the cogitation talent of man is! What would happen if you and I could not communicate in English? All of our knowledge is stored in our soul in its own language which we verbalize into English. I was taught how to verbalize our thoughts in English, then Latin, French, German and Russian. The info in our soul is still their in its soul language. Maybe, at Babel, God blocked their ability to verbalize by “hiding” their language assets used to support verbalization. If this happened to us, each of us would have to find a way to verbalize, sign, and hieroglyphics. I have no idea what my or your efforts would produce. In English, a closed 3-sided figure is a ‘triangle’. Our soul has a descriptor [“label”] for it, unknown to us. So, if our word ‘triangle’ no longer is in our vocabulary; the idea is still recognizable and still has the same descriptor.  Imagine what we would have to do to verbalize to each other. I might draw a triangle and point it out to you and utter sound to label it. You could also come up with a different utterance; but both of us can draw our own version of a triangle. Keeping in mind that if no alphabets remained in us, the task of scribing your and my utterances would be a truly mind boggling effort.    We discussed the challenge to Adam [and Eve] on teaching Cain & Abel to verbalize beyond the words ‘goo-goo’ and ‘gah-gah’. The Babel people would have had a worse problem. Maybe that was the origin of the word ‘babble’. You then have to speculate further to the “why and wherefore”’s of world languages. It must have taken thousands of years [and still going] to generate our languages. Was Babel the beginning of our multi-lingual world? Was the language of Adam in use up to the Babel event?	039.00	050
040.         How about our soul language? God’s Third Commandment requires us to communicate through prayer, praise, petition, thanks, … . Therefore we have a language that God understands and we have a process wherein we can understand His language. If His language is the same as ours, there is one ‘soul’ language. If so “God is everywhere”, thus making communication with Him simple. If He abides in our soul. If He is the power source, then understanding is simpler. If His language is different from ours or if there are two languages, communications would be more complex and there would be greater puzzlement.	040.00	051