The Mind Of God

Several decades ago Stephen Hawking began his search for the Mind of God. He works through this process and how to realize it in his book A Brief History of Time, and his last sentence of the text reads :

"If we find the answer to that [the unified field theory], it would be the triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God."

Right there, in that very sentence, he reveals the underlying component of understanding this mind : human reason. This mind has been referred to by many names in the course of history. Timothy Leary called it the Universal Mind; William Blake called it the Doors of Perceptions; Aldous Huxley, using Blake's term as well, also called it the Mind at Large; the Yogis of Hinduism call it Universal Consciousness; Carl Jung called it the Collective Unconscious. All these names refer to the underlying structure of everything we comprehend.

The problem is for a mind to realize that it is. The very fact that we say I am speaks for this idea. This is what is referred to as a sentient being, something that actively recognizes and comprehends itself as a solipsistic entity, and through that conduit of the self constructs a reality to navigate external stimuli. This is the very nature of human reason. With reason we comprehend and structure our reality. A computer is not a sentient being because it cannot realize its own underlying processes that it uses to construct its reality, that is, its enslavement to humans, albeit these days we are trying to help computers to do so. I think, therefore I am.

The fact that we can and do comprehend a great deal about the structure of the external stimuli to ourselves, that is we understand, as well as can predict the actions, of the universe and our environs. This very comprehension is what was used to establish the structure of the universe. The evolutionary process of natural selection never intended for us to comprehend how the very small works, nor the very large. Natural selection only intended for us to understand the middle scale. We did not evolve to understand the sum of all histories or dark matter, nor the beginning of the universe or gravitons. But we do, or are at least very close to understanding it.

The debate for God's existence aside, human reason is the Mind of God. It is our ability to structure a reality from dualities : male - female, light - dark, up - down, inside - outside, good - bad, et cetera. This was the gift God gave us with the Fruit of Death; the Tree of Knowledge God tempted us like children to take part of. As the serpent said, "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

We have the Mind of God.