Why should M@L = God be loving?
Re: Why should M@L = God be loving?
I'm new here. What does the acronym M@L mean? Is it the same as MAL?
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Soul_of_Shu
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Re: Why should M@L = God be loving?
Mind at large
Here out of instinct or grace we seek
soulmates in these galleries of hieroglyph and glass,
where mutual longings and sufferings of love
are laid bare in transfigured exhibition of our hearts,
we who crave deep secrets and mysteries,
as elusive as the avatars of our dreams.
soulmates in these galleries of hieroglyph and glass,
where mutual longings and sufferings of love
are laid bare in transfigured exhibition of our hearts,
we who crave deep secrets and mysteries,
as elusive as the avatars of our dreams.
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ScottRoberts
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Re: Why should M@L = God be loving?
This is a physicalist or panpsychist assumption. From an idealist perspective it is possible to consider that life has always been meta-cognitive. While there is likely no meta-cognition in individual (non-human) organisms, it is possible that there is in the species to which the organism belongs. What we call instinctve behavior in, say, a cat, can be looked on as an idea in the mind of the cat species which it is manifesting in each cat, with the species observing how it works in physical reality. As conditions change, it will modify its ideas, and hence the instictive behavior, and in extreme cases its genetic expression, which we call adaption.
Of course this is purely speculative, assuming one hasn't intuitive insight into the question (as some have claimed, and as mythologies have asserted, e.g., in stories of Coyote). I am merely pointing out that idealists need not, and I would say should not, make that assumption.