INDEPENDENT STATES IN THE REPUBLIC OF THOUGHT

The idea of a unified reality, called Monism, is an irreducible and

indelible construct. It is the source of our continuous, deep sense of
mystery concerning ultimate reality, of which we know absolutely
nothing.

We can’t help but assume, however, that all things are connected,
and therefore to think that way habitually. Indeed, we humans inhabit
a realm of existence in which causal connections are everywhere
provable. And we ourselves are both agents of cause as well as causal
agents.

This impulse to be monistic is so deeply imprinted in our

subconscious that is has resulted in our science community becoming
almost paralyzed when confronted by any discontinuity in a causal
sequence. They have taken to using rhetoric to avoid acceptance of
such dead ends: they coyly refer to them as “causal decouplings”;
meaning that a given causal chain has been merely interrupted, rather
than being non-existent.

The other rhetorical trick deployed is tautology: repeating the

same idea by using different words, thereby creating the illusion that
the premise or hypothesis has been rationally extended.

At the moment in Western culture these two ploys of linguistic

sleight-of-hand are the principle cause of cognitive chaos, confusion
and obstruction in conscious awareness. The most blatant use of them
occurs in biology, specifically neo-Darwinist evolution, when
referencing the theory behind evolution, Natural Selection. And,
naturally, there is no such animal ---until us.

The real reason life scientists continue to pick on creationists and

other hapless religionists and mystics is that there is no one else to
argue with. Yet some kind of argument must continue because such a
thought balloon of confusion will quickly deflate unless gas is
continuously pumped into it. All biologists know that physical evolution
is a simple fact in and of reality; and they know also that the entire
learned world knows and believes it.

Why then do they continue to debate a superstitious, know-nothing

community? Since it’s not to protect and preserve the fact of simple
physical evolution, it can only be to keep the spotlight off the
tautological, redundant palindrome called The Theory of Natural
Selection. In the republic of thought one must at times accept that a
cigar may be just a smoke.
 The simplest truth is this: theories are both useless and
meaningless in all life sciences. Many have been tried and some have
even become dogma. But none have survived because they just don’t
work. Not one! And that now includes Natural Selection. The rule is
that forms created by random mutation are axiomatically
unpredictable.

The Theory of Acquired Characteristics by Lamarck, held by Darwin

for some stretch, is now dead, dead. The Theory of Recapitulation by
Haeckel (Ontology copies phylogeny, etc.), ditto. And now Natural
Selection is also dead. But like some old grand patriarch whose demise
was intolerable, that theory remains propped up at the head of the
science table. More recently, when Harvard biologist Stephen J. Gould
tried to explain the inexplicable, the sudden and explosive proliferation
of mutations that occasionally occur in the otherwise gradual stream of
evolution, called Punctuated Equilibrium, the idea was generally
ignored because it raised so many doubts about Natural Selection.

Please take note here: all these theories, and others, are good
ideas. They just got put into the wrong box! That is they are not about
external forces that created us. They are all about internal forces of
consciousness that we’ve been using for epochs to create ourselves.
They are solid, spot-on theories in our Sociogenesis. We should re-
label them as “misplaced intuitions”; we merely got the ‘exit’ and
‘entrance’ signs mixed up.

The simplest mistakes are the easiest to make and tend to go

unnoticed the longest. And when finally detected they are the most
resistant to correct because so much has subsequently been built on
them; cultural inertia.

So in fairness it is very understandable how biology got into this

bind. It was tough enough to get the world to accept simple
Darwinism. And to keep it alive they had to show how it worked …
scientifically.

Oops! We tend to forget that existential fact transcends all belief

systems. It preempts science just as it preempts religion. Religion is a
spiritual technology; science is a material technology, and both exist in
the controlling context of a greater reality. There’s a high price to be
paid when you forget that for too long.

When Darwin laid out the case for the continuous evolution of life
forms, their expansion and diversity, he brought us to the end of a
road, a cul-de-sac. A conscious creature revealed how we became
conscious creatures. There was no place to go ---except backwards.
But mirrors are tricky. It’s easy to think they are windows! Look at
what happened to the quantum cowboys, Planck, Bohr and Heisenberg,
et al. It’s a hundred years later, and still no one knows what to make
of Quantum Theory. But there are a few facts we can extract. Quanta
exist. We believe they are somehow connected and related to particle
physics. It gets harder and costlier to try and make the connection.
Some reputable physicists think the Hadron Collider will encounter
another impossible palindrome, a mirror (“nature won’t allow it!”).
Like the one geneticists recently encountered in the double helix: an
exact reversal in code. Like the one between Matter and Life. Like the
one, arguably, between Brain and Mind, which is so counter-intuitive
that neo-Darwinists get sea sick at the thought. Yet all these mirrors
are like two-dimensional dividers in the republic of thought or
cognition. They are separate and independent states of awareness
that we can assume are monistically conjoined at some point in
timespace. But we are far from there still.
Patience. Someday. Maybe.

Meanwhile there exists this new Quantum Megaverse, an

unimaginable new context of our existence. An exponentially
expanded Great Chain of Being that dissolves our dependence on
certitude, and thus our search for certainty. We simply need to accept
that we’ve never been right … at least not for very long. So the quest
for probability is probably the most rational course to pursue.

Causal connections were never ‘decoupled’. They were

discontinuous from the start, at least in the context of human
conscious evolution. Between Quanta, Matter, Life, Evolution and
Consciousness these mirrors are an intrinsic part of the Republic of
Thought.

We now know that there is a ‘place’ where there is no Space or

Time, where Matter does not matter. Could this be a moment in our
Sociogenesis of “punctuated equilibrium”, a quantum leap in our
understanding of a greater reality ? We damn well better hope so.

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