Alfred North Whitehead and Theories of Everything, a speculative approach, (Revised Version), with some added second thoughts, August 26, 2015 out of the Mindmyth web site, by Allan Ralph Andrews, born September 13th 1939 in Long Beach California at 4:03 AM at Saint Mary’s Hospital to Jean Thompson Andrews Colaluca and Ralph B Andrews, this piece written in Bakersfield, California, Oildale, Kern County on August 22nd.

To understand what I am doing here you need to read Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality and my comments on Whitehead in my work “Love” published by Thomas Press in Los Angeles in 1974, for further clarification, look at the notes at the end of these reflections to Whitehead’s work.

I like to use a three dimensional version of the I Ching, generated by fusing the old two dimensional wheel versions into a three dimensional sphere and then flattening it back into a wheel that rotates on the eldest daughter yin axis, which I use as a symbol of mathematics and information systems and logic, the pattern potential in all things.

The rotating axis, the other side of the sphere, the edge of the wheel that is the flattened sphere, will be eldest son yang, or energy, the first law of thermodynamics. Between this two opposite lies an inner circle connecting two sets of polar opposites, middle son yang, or the integration of all things, opposed to youngest daughter yin and the disintegration of all things, and youngest son yang, or phenomenology and consciousness and detachment and dissociation, and youngest daughter yin, or space time relativity and attachment and association in the public world.

These six polarities generate three sets of yin and yang lines that form the eight trigrams of the I Ching that correspond to the four metaphysical opposites of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Heaven Trigram as the infinite and Earth as the finite, Mountain as the simple and Lake as the complex, Flame as the open and Water Well as the closed and determinate, Wind as the necessary ideal and Thunder as the contingent.

Heaven is the infinite flux that makes the improbable probable, in evolution it is the notion of mutation, changes in genes. Earth is the opposite, the phenotype, the adaptive trait that a gene provides the protein code for in the form of alternating base pairs in DNA molecules.

Wind is that code as an ideal set point, an adaptive peak and Thunder is the evolution as entropy, the natural selection and extinction that eliminates maladaptive expressions of genes. Flame is the chaos that is at the edge of order in complexity theory, the competitive exclusion, the competition between genes that drives the natural selection process that emerges in Thunder Trigram. Lake is the sexual reproduction that allows for the recombination of genes, the population genetics that allows for the expression of all kinds of genetic complexity. Mutation in Heaven, competition in Flame, natural selection in Thunder, the emergence of genetic complexity in Lake cause the wheel to turn around the energy flux that is eldest son yang.

The inner core of this wheel is speciation in Mountain Trigram, the emergence of genetic set points in Wind Trigram, feedback maintaining homeostasis in Water Well Trigram and genetic replication, resulting in phenotypes in Earth Trigram that are adapted to their environment and

can be used to support the integrity of the species and its isolation from external gene pools that might damage its adaptive separation.

Hexagrams tie the trigrams together by combining them. The hexagrams between the infinite source in Heaven and the open competition of Flame support novelty and invention. Those between the complexity of Lake and the emergent expressions of Thunder support progressive development. Those between the order of Water Well and the products and traits of Earth support replication and standardized effects, those between the ideal in Wind Trigram and its separate integrity in Mountain Trigram support conservation and preservation of type.

The hexagrams between Heaven and Lake support the ground of possibility, and those between Flame and Thunder, the emergence of that possibility in action, between Earth and Mountain, the generation of form and structure from that action, and finally, between Wind and Water Well, the emergence of purposes and goals for those structures.

Hexagrams between Heaven and Wind generate the transcendent, and those between Flame and Mountain generate the individual, those between Earth and Thunder generate the manifest, and those between Water Well and Lake generate the collective.

Now most activity appears to come along this later circle. In the middle of the transcendent comes the break between the infinite whole in Middle Son Yang and the Infinitesimal here and now in Youngest Son Yang. The manifest is the realm of the finite in Earth Trigram and its emergence from evolution as entropy in Thunder Trigram contingency.

The manifest is bounded by the laws of Thermodynamics in the Eldest Son Yang line of Thunder Trigram, the laws of mathematics and systems theory and logic and information theory in the Eldest Daughter Yin lines of Earth Trigram, by quantum mechanics and particle theory in the disintegration of Middle Son Yin lines and in the space time relativity and association of Youngest Daughter Yin lines, both present in Earth Trigram and Thunder Trigram.

Youngest Son Yang is the place where the system bends inward to create the infinitesimal monads of here and now time an existential phenomenology. This phenomenology bends energy inward to generate passion and information inward to generate knowledge. It bends disintegration inward to generate suffering and pain and it bends integration inward to form pleasure, joy, and love. Association of the allurement associated with this infinitesimal atoms of monad driven passion are the root cause and enduring support of creation at its deep unseen roots. This process begins at the deep roots of the infinitesimal in the hidden transcendent.

It begins with the four stages of Buddhist dissociation from suffering: Stage I paranirvana, utterly gone from all attachment to suffering

Stage 2 nirvana, detached from suffering, pure roots of the monad self

Stage 3 budhisattava, major associations of detachment

Stage 4 buddha, detachment networks, pursuit of the roots of the infinitesimal

Next come the Jain and Monad roots

Stage 5 arhat, focused on purification and the sattva guna

Stage 6 jiva, as the pure sattva monad

Stage 7 monad systems, as with Leibnitz

Stage 8 soul, spirit, atman, pneuma, psyche as a monad system

At this point the Youngest Son Yang ends the transcendent hexagrams and joins the individual hexagrams and we begin a Zen Buddhist and Japanese Shinto section of the Line

Stage 9 mindfulness an Zen as a purification of the soul atoms

Stage 10 phenomenology as an interaction of soul atom events

Stage 11 existentialism as a development of phenomenological associations

Stage 12 astral bodies as networks of attachment for the above

Chinese Folk Mythology, ghosts, demons, astral attachment systems

Stage 13 human attachments

Stage 14 animal attachments

Stage 15 plant and lower life for attachments

Stage 16 physical allurements and chemical attachments

The breaking point between the transcendent and the manifest and the beginning of physical association

Stage 17 thermodynamic energy flux influence by the above

Stage 18 the emergence of constants in areas of this flux

Stage 19 the emergence of fields and wave systems

Stage 20 the emergence of string and manifold systems and quantum mechanics

The development of Chemistry

Stage 21 the emergence of particles, electrons

Stage 22 the emergence of protons and neutrons and atomic nuclei

Stage 23 the emergence of atoms and atomic valence

Stage 24 the formation of compounds and solutions, physical chemistry

The Middle Daughter Yin Dissociation Polarity

The development of Biochemistry

Stage 25 the formation of macromolecules, polypeptides, proteins, lipids

Stage 26 the formation on enzymes, transfer RNA

Stage 27 messenger RNA, Ribosomes, Cell organelles

Stage 28 chromosomes, DNA, prokaryotic cells

The generation of biology, tissue and organ physiology in plants and animals

Stage 29 cell nuclei

Stage 30 cells, gametes, sexual reproduction

Stage 31 tissues, inducers, embryology

Stage 32 organs, hormones, anatomy and physiology

The Natural World, the Manifest

The emergence of psychology:

Stage 33 organ systems, neurology, nerve messages

Stage 34 organisms, behaviors, signals and socialization

Stage 35 populations, human speech, anthropology

Stage 36 communities, human civilization, sociology, writing

The emergence of ecology and industrialization, communication”

Stage 37 ecosystems, industrialism, printing

Stage 38 ecoregions, communication, telegraph

Stage 39 ecozones, broadcasting, radio

Stage 40 biosphere, short wave radio, television, media

The emergence of cosmic association, Youngest Daughter Yin

The penetration of the solar system and the emergence of robotics:

Stage 41 the planet, the computer, computer programs

Stage 42 the moon and satellites, internet, space stations, space probes

Stage 43 solar system belts, robotics

Stage 44 solar system, androids

The penetration of outer space and the emergence of alien life

Stage 45 star clusters, star ships

Stage 46 galaxies, star bases

Stage 47 galaxy systems, alien life forms

Stage 48 universes and cosmic systems, creative intelligence

The break between the visible and the invisible, the center of the collective and universal

The creation of cosmic integration, see Dante, Catholic Theology

Stage 49 the generation of a super cosmic system, of big bangs

Stage 50 demonic systems, hells, infernos

Stage 51 limbos

Stage 52 purgatories

Deeper forms of cosmic integration see the Protestant Christian mythology of C. S. Lewis, Narnia, the Great Divorce

Stage 53 Elysium and Eden, and Utopian cosmic systems

Stage 54 Heavens

Stage 55 Paradise

Stage 56 High Heaven, Glory, Throne of God

The integration of all things in the One, in Allah of the Sufi Saints:

Middle Son Yang, the integrative polarity, religion, extension of integration into the infinite

Stage 57 the integration of cosmology and cosmogony

Stage 58 the integration of omnipresence

Stage 59 the integration of omnipotence

Stage 60 the integration of omniscience

The extension of the infinite into the roots of the infinitesimal in Hindu Theology:

Stage 61 Brahman as the integrated one

Stage 62 Vishnu as the extension of Brahman into the infinite and infinitesimal

Stage 63 Ishvara as the further extension of the above

Stage 64 Avatars as the final ultimate extension of the infinite into the infinitesimal

This completes the full circle ending at the center of the expanding transcendent where it began.

Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, CA 93308, Saturday, August 22nd 2015

So what do we have? The eldest daughter yin information point that becomes a line, an axis that turns on a second point of eldest son yang energy and expands into a three point triangle of the eldest son yang thermodynamics and the middle son yang boundless integration and the youngest son yang creative phenomenology generating the infinite flux that makes the improbable probable in Heaven Trigram and the ideal of the priceless improbable in the eldest daughter information laws of Wind Trigram reflected into the objects of Earth Trigram as mathematics in eldest daughter yin and quantum mechanics and atoms and chemistry in middle daughter yin and space time relativity in youngest daughter yin.

From this comes a three dimension octahedron, or a cube, with six sides for the three polarities of eldest son and eldest daughter, middle son and middle daughter, and youngest son and youngest daughter and

eight corners of the cube, eight face of the octahedron for each trigram and twelve edges for each hexagram connecting a trigram to an adjacent trigram. This cube and octahedron is also a set of complementary tetrahera, Wind, Lake, Earth, and Flame, being the faces of the tetraheron of Air, Water, Earth, and Fire elemental tempers. These expand into the eight tempers of the octahedron cube of the eight trigrams, Heaven as the romantic, Wind as the classical, Lake as the post-impressionist, Mountain as the impressionist, Flame as the cubist and Water Well as the baroque, Earth as the realist, and Thunder as the expressionist.

The equator of this cube octahedron double tetrahedron sphere is the 64 stage system set out above of tetrahedral combined into octahedron and combined again into 4, 5, dimensional figures and beyond. The generation of phenomenology at the youngest son yang existential experience pole creates the avoidance of pain in the disintegration that is the middle daughter yin pole and the pursuit of the joy and pleasure that is the middle son yang pole, generating associations at the youngest daughter yin pole that will support these activities of pleasure seeking and pain avoidance. This is the cause of the association of monad atoms in attachment bodies that seek birth and rebirth and generate the cycles of samsara, of karma and dharma, that are the source of the astrological world and rebirth in various universes and their complementary heavens and hells.

This system transcends any metaphysical doctrine. It begins with buddhamind roots that are the polar opposite of the psychology manifest in the visible world, and proceeds with a system of Jain like jiva monads that are the polar opposite of the ecological and industrial systems of planet, with a phenomenology that is the polar opposite of

the emerging media of the planet, with a system of astrology and astral bodies that is the polar opposite of visible astronomy. From this comes a world of physics that is the polar opposite of the cosmology that generates it and of chemistry that is the polar opposite of its mythological sources, biochemistry that is the polar opposite of the infinite integration that calls it into being, biology of the theology that is its deeper source. Not that any theist or atheist ideas are adequate to define the deep complexity of this multidimensional system of integration. It transcends the limited equipment of the human mind and can be approached only through the crudest of symbols, and then is seen only through a haze. It is, of course, the object of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the Sun as Heaven and the Form of the Good as Wind, the Cave itself as Lake Trigram and the walkways within as Water Well Trigram, the object carried on the walkways as Earth Trigram and their shadows and Thunder Trigram. The fires within the cave that shine on the objects are Flame Trigram and the chains of the observers are Mountain Trigram. Alfred North Whitehead calls this Sun “God” and the Form of the Good becomes the Eternal Object, the Cave is a Nexus, an Organism and the walkways are the Propositions it generates, and the objects casting shadows are Actual Occasions and processes and events are their shadows. The chained observers are Prehensions and the flames that illuminate the shadows are Contrasts.

Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, CA

The idea that this odd model derived from Plato and Confucius, the I Ching, the Four Greek Elements, Pythagoras, the Four Causes of Aristotle, could be the ultimate Form of the Good, the order behind the disorder that governs all things, seems strange on the surface, but the model works when we test it:

Let us try genetics, Heaven Trigram is mutation, and Wind is adaptive peak genotypic set point ideal, Water Well is feed back systems supporting replication and maintenance of homeostatic systems supporting the genetic ideal, Earth is the resulting phenotype, the actual resulting traits, Mountain is the input that checks those phenotypes against the set points and the speciation and species barriers to cross breading that protects these input systems. Flame is chaos generated by mutation and the competition between genetic systems within that chaos creating competitive exclusion and speciation, Thunder is evolution as entropy, as natural selection, as the extinction of maladaptive genetic expressions, and Lake is the resulting sexual reproduction, genetic recombination, hybrid formation, and population genetic complexity.

In food chains, Heaven Trigram would be the producer organisms, Wind would be the herbivores, Mountain the carnivores, Flame the decomposers, Lake would be symbiosis, Water Well would be parasites and Thunder would be pathogens, with Earth as the summit of the chain of consumers and predation, the final result. Hexagrams between Heaven and Lake might give us symbiotic coral reefs, between Heaven and Wind, redwood forests, between Wind and Water Well, mushroom mycelia, Wind and Mountain, bees and butterflies, Mountain and Earth, top dog carnivores like a lion, Mountain and Flame, the vulture, the hawk, Flame and Heaven, chemosynthetic bacteria, Flame and Thunder, viruses like mumps, Thunder and Earth, protozoa causing malaria, Thunder and Water Well, the rust fungus, Water Well and Lake, the fungi in lichens, Lake and Thunder, yeast organisms.

Suppose we are looking at human motives, Heaven Trigram might be pride and Wind might be aristocratic greed, Water Well might be slavery and Lake might be dogmatic sloth, Earth might be gluttony and substance addiction, Mountain might be partisan jealousy, and Flame might be martial anger, Thunder might be vulgar lust. The hexagrams between Heaven and Lake could be the avoidant personality disorder, between Heaven and Wind, the schizoid, between Heaven and Flame, the schizotypal, between Flame and Mountain, the sadistic and negativisitic, between Flame and Thunder, the antisocial, between Mountain and Wind, the paranoid, between Mountain and Earth, the narcissistic, between Earth and Water Well, the dependent, between Wind and Water Well the compulsive, between Water Well and Lake, the depressed and masochistic, between Lake and Thunder, the borderline, between Thunder and Earth, the histrionic.

In social systems, Heaven could be aboriginal production, and Wind could be aristocratic hoarding, Flame could be exploiting and raiding and Mountain could be partisan speciation and segregation, Water Well could be the receptive and Lake the hybridizing and recombining, Earth could be industrial product and the utilitarian and Thunder could be the consumer, the marketing orientation. So Heaven could be the hunter gather stage, and Flame raids and plunder by an external proletariat, Mountain, the republic, the partisan nationalist city state, Wind the monarchy, aristocracy, the dominant elite, Water Well, the universal state, the absolutism, the internal proletariat, Lake, the empire, the missionary, the universal church, Earth, the nationalistic industrial state, the democracy, the utilitarian electorate, Thunder, the international market, the consumer public.

Heaven is the inspirational ethic and the appeal to ignorance, and Wind is the virtue ethic and the circular argument, Flame is hasty generalization and existential ethics, Mountain is rational individualism and special pleading, Water Well is duty ethics and appeal to authority, Lake is divine command ethics, human concern appeals, ideological ethics, dialectical ethics, and appeal to emotion, Earth is utilitarian ethics and ad hominem, intimidation by expertise, Thunder is hedonistic ethics and appeals to numbers.

In philosophy, Heaven is supernatural idealism and Wind is classical idealism, Flame is existentialism and phenomenology, and Mountain is empiricism, Earth is materialism and utilitarianism, and Thunder is pragmatism, Water Well is rationalism, scholasticism, dogmatism, and Lake is dialectic and ideology. Heaven tends to magic and Earth to science, Wind to metaphysics and Thunder to business and technology and economics, Flame to art and music and design, Lake to literature, scripture, and poetic expressions, Mountain to philosophy, logic, and debate, Water Well to government and law.

In the brain, eldest daughter yin is the cerebral cortex and the memory systems of the hippocampus and eldest son yang is the attention systems and basal ganglia of the lower brain and brain stem. Middle daughter is the fact and language function centered in the left, or dominant hemisphere, and Middle son is the creative integration that supports it in the complementary hemisphere, often the right hemisphere. Youngest Son Yang is the executive functions of the frontal lobe and Youngest Daughter Yin in the sensory associations of the parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes.

Four functions emerge from the above, a primitive id, or egg, an emergent libido, or child voice, and emergent reality principle, the ego, the adult voice, and a conscience, a censor, a superego, a parental voice. In general, the id (or egg) is identified to a mythical water element, or the Lake Trigram and the ego, or adult, to fire element, or the Flame Trigram, the superego, conscience, parent, to air element, or the Wind Trigram, leaving the more physical aspect, the emerging infant, or child, as earth element, or Earth Trigram. Heaven Trigram becomes the hidden source of this emerging Child in Earth and Thunder becomes the hidden motives behind the emerging Parent Voice in Wind, Water Well the hidden repression and discipline shaping the ego that sparks into the fires of Flame Trigram, and finally Mountain Trigram is the hidden information processing, and gradual development of consciousness, ordering the gradual emergence of the Child, Adult and Parent from the developing unconscious embryology of Egg.

Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, CA, 10:10 AM, August 23, Sunday, 2015

The Egg Voice emerges from a complex mass of genes and memes, culture and nature in the Water Element (Lake Trigram), the Child Voice from the physiology and libido of the flesh, of nature in the Earth Element (Earth Trigram), the Adult Voice, from the reality principle, the competitive anxiety, the Existential experience of individual life in the Fire Element (Flame Trigram) and finally the Parent Voice from the Platonic Form of the Good, the ideal set points and nature and culture in Air Element (Wind Trigram).

The source of the physical body and its Child Voice in Earth Trigram is the infinite flux that makes the improbable probable in Heaven Trigram,

the source of the ideal form, the form of the good, the eternal object, the adaptive set points in Wind Trigram is evolution as entropy in Thunder Trigram, Daniel R. Brooks and E. O. Wiley, in the book, Evolution as Entropy, describe how natural processes, competition for energy in energy dissipative structures, drive the natural selection that will generate higher and higher levels of emergent organization, for which Wind Trigram, Air Element, is the adaptive peak, the highest set point.

The source of the complex processes, the mythology, the ancestry, the collective conscious the is Water Element, Lake Trigram are individual ideas and patterns that emerge in Mountain Trigram as analysis and thought. Richard Tarnas examines the synchronicity, the Jungian unconscious aspect of this out of Lake Trigram in his book Cosmos and Psyche, after having examined the Mountain Trigram, the analytic opposite in his book “The Passion of the Western Mind.”

“Anxious,” the latest work by Joseph LeDoux, Viking, 2015, shows how the ego develops from the operations performed by the executive functions of the frontal lobes of the neocortex as they emerge out of the depths of the neurology of the brain, out of what Freud would have termed the “repression” performed by the unconscious prior its emergence in consciousness. That this “repression” may serve hidden purposes is one of the themes of Richard D. Alexander’s book, “The biology of moral notions,” In our systems, this emerging ego is in the Fire Element and Flame Trigram, as it emerges from the deeper order and potential repression of the Water Well Trigram and the automatic feed back mechanism of the brain that support the emergence of conscious thought, brilliantly described by LeDoux in this recently published work, see above.

I maintain that the attempt to determine what is fact and what is real in all of this is destined to fail. We pick our cognitive systems and moral systems for the practical purposes they serve not because of any “higher truth,” this is obvious in how we serve them up with a sauce of fallacious reasoning, as described above. Inspirational ethics and appeals to ignorance for the romantic temper in Heaven Trigram, and virtue ethics, served with circular reasoning to the Classical temper in Wind Trigram, existential ethics and hasty generalization for the experimental temper in Flame and individualistic ethics and special pleading for the impressionist temper in Mountain, duty ethics and appeal to authority for the Baroque temper in Water Well, and divine command and human concern ethics, served with appeals to emotion in the post-impressionist and symbolism tempers of Lake Trigram.

Utilitarian and pragmatic ethics are served up with intimidation and ad hominem arguments (you cannot believe the weak minded) in the realism and naturalism of Earth Trigram, hedonism and appeals to numbers are often found served up in the expressionism of Thunder Trigram.

Allan Ralph Andrews, Aug 24th 2015, 12:37 Pacific Daylight Time.

Now the interesting thing with the 64 stage cycle above is that it make God everything and nothing at once. Things start out with Buddhist atheism agnosticism, it is all about nirvana as the pure void roots of the jiva selfless released from attachment Buddha soul, everything disappears in the gone gone gone of release from suffering, the ultimate negative escape from the pain of disintegration in the finite world. From here you build up into attachment to particles and chemistry and biology, but you are now in the materialistic positivism

of science, there is no god in this world but quantum mechanics. However, higher and higher levels of organization emerge so that a alien intelligence computer god begins to arise. From here you move to alternative universes where mythology, fantasy, and science fiction combine to generate the demon and the demigod. Gradually you pass from the Catholic Theology of Dante and Tolkien to the Protestant Theology of C. S. Lewis and Narnia.

Continued integration generates the one power of Islam, Allah, all powerful and all knowing, but continued expansion and integration leads to the Brahman One of Hinduism and it expands further as Vishnu the become the Lord, Ishvara, and finally the Avatars of Vishnu, Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, etc.. Now you have a God that is everything that has grown by evolutionary steps of the integration of the infinite flux that make the improbable probable to generate the ultimate improbable in the Hindu theology that absorbs and integrates all theology in the polytheistic monotheism of the Hindu One. You have a theological system in which God is nothing and everything at once, the negative of avoidance of suffering and pain and the positive of affirmative love and joy in dancing Krishna, compassionate Buddha, the Christ of Saint Francis and Martin Luther King, it is the “God of the Ultimate Future” in the Lutheran Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg.

Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, Oildale, Aug. 24th 2015, 9:59 in memory of my grandmother Mary Lucretia Lingenfelter Thompson and my great grandmother Agnes Thornburg Andrews, and my grandfathers Hugh Monroe Thompson and Allen Shipley Andrews and my Great Great Uncle Allen Peter Thornburgh and my Great Aunt Ruth Lingenfelter Jurich and my brother Stephen Charles Andrews.

Further thoughts on the above. The system described above assumes that the current scientific system will need to be extended, or revised, to explain continuing astrological evidence, the patterns described in Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche, Viking, 2006; Francis King, The Cosmic Influence, Aldus, 1976; Pamela Crane, Draconic Astrology, Aquarian Press, 1987; Liz Green, Saturn, Samuel Weiser, 1976; The Astrology of Fate, Samuel Weiser, 1984; Michael and Margaret Erlewine, Astrophysical Directions, 1977, Heart Center; T. Patrick Davis, Revolutionizing Astrology with Helocentric, 1980, Davis Research Reports, and others like the above, provide a better set of predictions for the events in my life than the data available from science.

This requires some sort of revision of the materialistic metaphysics, or the current scientific cosmology that is not limited by Occam’s Razor.

The best explanation for the observed is some of the options discussed by William James in “The Principles of Psychology,” but now rejected because of the need to reduce everything to the current physical hypothesis system. What is likely, in a universe governed by an infinite flux rooted in endlessly conserved energy, is a multitude of metaphysical and cosmology and cosmogony options in which particle systems and quantum system, string systems and manifold systems of all kinds are endlessly generated and interact in many ways to an endless degree. Planck’s constant is likely a local item, there may be particle and wave systems of all kinds and sizes from the finite into the infinitesimal, and systems of systems of these things, explaining the astral phenomena that appear to underlie and supplement the world of finite measurements.

William of Ockham (1287 -1347) was a scholastic philosopher and theologian. The razor of Ockham is a piece of scholastic dogma that is one source of the current fundamentalism abroad in science, religion, and philosophy. The only rational support for the razor is appeals to authority, appeals to emotion, circular reasoning, special pleading, appeal to numbers, ad hominem, and argument by intimidation (there is no reason why everything should be simple). It is a pragmatic device, a technique that has proven fruitful, it has nothing whatsoever to do with truth, with reality, with metaphysical rationality, and everything to do with practical results. In fact no one is really sure why it works, or if it really does work. Perhaps it just generating a nice social delusion that makes us comfy because we can live in denial of all the monstrous possibilities that the razor cuts away. It is a delightful item for people who are very intelligent, but utterly lacking in imagination and creativity, they can use the razor to cut down their opposition, which is done with great relish by those who use it in science, positive philosophy, fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Orthodoxy in Jewish practice, and the equivalent in suicidal Islam. It has been of great help in concentrating our resources in the generation of such wonders as nuclear weapons. It is time we take a second look at Papa Ockham’s bloody tool (at least for pruning work done outside the scholastic philosophic arguments for which it was originally designed).

August 25th 2015

My problem with Occam’s Razor then, is not its use in science, but its use in politics and religion, in assumptions outside its area of normal application. My point is really that made by Gilbert Ryle in Dilemmas, that once something appears to be useful within a category, humans, like children, can never keep themselves from applying it, using it

where it does not belong. It is just this sort of thing that has us making a bomb because it can be made. Once we deny the speculative, the possible, in favor of some simple fact, it is hard to keep the human from proceeding in a linear fashion. Unfortunately, even if Occam did not have this sort of thing in mind, it has encouraged linear thinking of every type. As a result, we have too many simple working tools and too little speculation about their potential power to harm. Then we turn around and use the Bible, the Church, the Koran, as if it were a simple tool, like Newton’s Laws, and the result is catastrophic mindless madness.

If the finite and the measurable can be explained as the product of an infinite flux that make the improbable probable, everything must be looked at two ways, as a wave of meaning and as a particle of fact. The wave of meaning has an infinity of complex possibilities and the particle of fact may have simple measurable attributes, like the valence of an atom. So we need to know the Occam’s Razor measure of an event and its potential improbable, but possible fields of implications, they are two attributes of the event, the problem is that the Razor puts the focus on the one at the expense of the other. So we build the bomb because we have predicted we can do it, but it is only many years afterward that we begin to experience the full wave field of its associated effects.

The purpose of the I Ching model is to allow for both, the Heaven Trigram infinite source and the Earth Trigram finite product, and all the intermediate states in between, simple in Mountain, complex in Lake, necessary in Wind, contingent in Thunder, chaotic in Flame and ordered and determinate in Water Well.

So the wheel of the I Ching twirls on the axis of Eldest Son Yang Energy in Heaven Trigram to Eldest Daughter Yin Information in Earth Trigram, and as it twirls, it starts from the infinitesimal nothing in the center of the transcendent hexagrams that connect Heaven Trigram to Wind Trigram, through the 64 stages that turn the wheel through the individual hexagrams between Flame and Mountain and through the manifest hexagrams between Earth and Thunder and through the collective hexagrams between Water Well and Lake and back to the starting point in the transcendent as the infinite integration of all things is endless extended into the improbable.

Allan Ralph Andrews, August 25th 2015 at 3:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time in Oildale, Bakersfield, Kern County, California.

Now an interesting question is if the 64 stages conform to any particular arrangement of the hexagrams. The whole question of the conversion and integration of arrangements of the trigrams and the hexagrams is too complex to discuss here. My tendency is to play loose with traditional interpretations in the hope of working out new insights, but the question of the hexagrams, and how to arrange them, particularly in respect to a three dimensional I Ching, or a four dimensional I Ching of 64 stages, that is too complex a problem to resolve here. So also is the question of any relationships with the signs of the zodiac, the planets, etc. These topics must be left for another day.

Joseph LeDoux’s latest work, Anxious, Viking, 2015, puts great emphasis on the frontal lobes as the source of the ego function, the Adult Voice referred to above (op. cit., pp. 176 through 180), the frontal lobes shift the WHEN factor of eldest daughter yin forward into working

memory from the hippocampus, and the HOW factor upward from attention centers, basal ganglia, and lower brain based emotional controls in hypothalamus, thalamus, and autonomic nervous systems, the WHERE is located in the sensory association areas of the Parietal Lobe and the Temporal and Occipital lobes and their connections with the frontal lobe, and the WHAT is located in the left temporal lobe and its verbal recognition areas, all of which get forwarded to processing in the areas of the fontal lobe using working memory and frontal lobe connections to limbic areas and amygdale, as discussed by LeDoux, above.

In the ancient symbolism of the God on Mount Olympus, Athena becomes this working memory, Apollo becomes these attention factors, and Artemis becomes the complementary connections to lower brain functions controlling sleep and dreams. Hephaestus becomes connections to basal ganglia behaviors and behavior skills. Zeus is connections to self image and self image based behaviors. Hera is connections to right hemisphere and other frontal lobe centers monitoring fear based caution and concern. Aphrodite is input from lower brain centers controlling sexual expression and desire and Ares the complement in aggression, fight or flight, thus, both with connections to the Amygdala. Demeter is right hemisphere Parietal lobe functions controlling orientation in space, and Poseidon is right hemisphere connections to dreams and symbolism integrating a larger picture, the picture of the sea in Greek Myth. Hermes is the verbalization of this information out of frontal lobe speech centers and Hestia is the complementary listening response centered in Temporal Lobe verbal associations.

In our symbolism, Artemis tends to be the schizotypal hexagrams linking Heaven to Flame Trigram, and Apollo as the negativistic and sadistic hexagrams from Flame to Mountain. Hera as the paranoid hexagrams between Wind and Mountain Trigram and Zeus as the narcissistic hexagrams from Mountain to Earth Trigram. Hephaestus as the compulsive hexagrams from Wind to Water Well and Artemis as the schizoid hexagrams from Wind to Heaven, Demeter as the depressed and masochistic hexagrams from Water Well to Lake Trigram and Poseidon as the avoidant hexagrams from Lake Trigram to Heaven Trigram. Hestia as the dependent hexagrams from Water Well to Earth Trigram and Hermes as the histrionic hexagrams from Earth to Thunder Trigram, Aphrodite as the borderline hexagrams from Lake to Thunder Trigram, and Ares as the antisocial hexagrams from Thunder to Flame Trigram.

Remember, in our system, the temper of Heaven Trigram is aboriginal pride and of Wind is aristocratic greed, that of Flame is marital anger and that of Mountain is partisan jealousy, and that of Earth is addictive gluttonous product utilization, that of Water Well is receptive slavery and that of Lake is dogmatic sloth, that of Thunder is hedonistic lust. All rooted in the emotive tempers generated by the cerebral system described above. We maintain that the economic and ethical systems governing the planet are rooted in these polarities, inspirational ethics supporting aboriginal pride and the hunter gather orientation, and virtue ethics supporting aristocratic greed and the rise of dominant elites and aristocratic systems, feudalism and monarchy, duty ethics supporting universal states and internal proletariats and the receptive slavery orientation associated with such institutions, while human concern ethics and divine command ethics support universal churches

and universal ideologies, like the Marxist dialectic, as wall as the missionary and imperial efforts associated with them and the dogmatic sloth that they encourage.

The Mountain Trigram supports rational individualism and the nationalism and city state republicanism associated with the partisan jealousy such states encourage, as opposed to Earth Trigram industrialism and democratic utilitarianism and pragmatism and the addictive gluttony of the product oriented outcomes such states support. The Thunder Trigram in the international capitalistic trading state climax of the above system characterized by populism, vulgar lust and hedonism, and a consumer market culture.

All of these political and economic results are the product of the various orientations that can be supported by the system described above, aboriginal product generation in Heaven Trigram and industrial product generation in Earth Trigram, exploitation in Flame and receptive orientations in Water Well, speciation and segregation in Mountain and hybrid formation and recombination in Lake Trigram, hoarding and refinement in Wind and marketing and consumption in Thunder. Associated with these states are the artistic tempers describe above and elsewhere, romantic in Heaven and realistic in Earth, Classical in Wind and expressionist in Thunder, existential, experimental, Cubist, in Flame and traditional, absolutistic, and Baroque in Water Well, impressionistic in Mountain Trigram and post-impressionistic and symbolism in Lake Trigram.

August 26th 2015

Anil Ananthaswamy has written a book titled “The Man Who Wasn’t There,” Dutton, 2015. Based on the issues brought up in this book, we

may say that the “self” has many levels of existence and nonexistence. The social talking self, the ego, the Adult Voice, is a temporary construct of the development of the human personality and the human brain an emerges only when there are the necessary physiological, neurological, social, linguistic, and cultural supports. Physiological problems, developmental problems, cultural conditions can alter what the self becomes and the traits it displays, damage the brain, damage emotional development, damage cultural development and these will be reflected in ego states, in brain states, in the Egg, Child, Adult, Parent Voices of the person and the degree their harmonious production of an integrated self.

This self does not endure, is not immortal within our space time world, and must die within its normal lifetime, is but a dance of brain processes, physiological processes, thought processes, social processes, emerging at various levels of organization in the environments inhabited by the human species. Yet, given a larger cosmogony and cosmology, the cosmogony and cosmology of levels of organization that emerge in the 64 stages given above, the self does not exist except as a jiva Buddha in the deep gone beyond of nirvana where it as one with the void, and yet it does exist as one of an infinity of avatars of the Vishnu Brahman One, again it exists as an infinity of monad jiva atoms generating an infinity of astal bodies that associate to fill the heavens and hells of Hindu, Christian, Jain, Muslim, Taoist, and Buddhist theology and mythology. All of the above are both true and false to various degrees and in various ways depending on point of view and temper and stage of integrative organization from which the observer choices to make his or her observation. The final truth is practical, depends on the function that is being performed, religious and

concerned with the infinite integration of all things, or physical and concerned with the states of the brain and the physiology of the body. Again, even within the religious realm, there are various religious tempers that focus on various aspects of the larger whole and none are more true than any other, not in the Infinite Game, as opposed to the Finite Game, see references to Carse above. Nothing further is worth saying, unless it be a reference to Saint Matthew, and his command that “Ye Judge not that ye be not judged.”

8/26/2015 5:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Bakersfield, CA

Emotion, feeling, passion are generated by being inside of energy systems and thought and reason and knowledge are generated by being inside of information systems. Pleasure and joy are products of being inside of the integration of these systems and pain and suffering are products of being inside their disintegration. These systems are integrated and organized at different levels, causing some of the confusions discussed in Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create A Mind, Penguin, 2012; Anil Ananthanswamy, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Duttun, 2015; Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, Viking, 2015; Richard Alexander, The biology of moral systems, Gruyter, 1987; Julius Kovesi, Moral Notions, Routledge, 1967; Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Barnes and Noble, 1949; Bernhard Rensch, Evolution above the Species Level, Columbia University Press, 1959; James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games, Free Press, 1986; William James, The Principles of Psychology, etc..

There are many levels of consciousness and many levels of self, thus, the self exists and does not exist as many things, and as a part of many things, selfness is a process as much as it is a thing, yet the physical aspect of self can have its objective form. From a Heaven Trigram

standpoint, the Self is a development of the infinite flux that makes the improbable probable, and from a Wind Trigram standpoint the self is made up of various metaphysical set points, established by genetics, language, ethical systems, conceptual systems, mythological systems, including both infinite and finite game. If we use the metaphysical interpretations of Carse, selves in infinite games grow like trees and tend gardens like gardeners and there is no finally interpretation or resolution to the mythological systems, to the monad systems that they might occupy. When they occupy languages systems, like those described in Kovesi’s Moral Notions, what they are is dependent on roles played in linguistic communities, Infinite Games imply endlessly changing roles. Some of these problems are discussed by William James in respect to physiological psychology and by Gilbert Ryle in respect to philosophy and by Jospeh LeDoux and Anil Ananthaswamy in respect to brain physiology.

Yet, I often use the old Mountain Trigram metaphysics of Ernest Holmes, Religious Science, Divine Science, Centers for Spiritual Living, which is rooted in the Pneuma, Spirit of Youngest Son Yang phenomenology, the Psyche of information systems rooted in hippocampus memory systems, and the mental systems of the upper brain, and finally in the Soma, the physiology of the organism itself in Youngest Daughter Yin atomic theory and chemistry. This system is rooted in the phenomenology of the “Anxious” mind (the Youngest Son Yang, WHO, the emergent self, described by LeDoux. He describes how frontal lobe brain centers it review the information coming from the hippocampus and its connections with lower brain centers processing organ system physiology monitored by the nervous system, central and autonomic.

These notions are easily captured in traditional metaphysics. Suppose an unseen world of monads, soul atoms, “Psyche” complexes is ordered by mathematics and systems theory and information theory in levels of higher and higher integration, the being the “Nous,” the Cosmic Mind” of Renaissance Platonism under Marsilio Ficino, (Eldest Daughter Yin) the higher and higher levels of integration become the “Hen” One in Middle Son Yang. This integration in Wind Trigram is the refined improbable made probable by the infinite flux in Heaven Trigram of Shiva, the destroyer as energy flux, and Vishnu the preserver, as its infinite extension, and Brahma, the creator, as its endless novel refinement in the creation of the improbable.

Wind Trigram drives homeostatic order in the Dharma of Astrology and the complex birth and rebirth of heavens and hells and various orders of cosmology as astral bodies and relationships in Lake Trigram, these emerging through the expansion of cosmic developments in evolution as entropy, the movement toward entropy driving natural selection in energy dissipative structures at all possible levels of organization and driving the emergence of order out of the atoms of the infinitesimal Buddha jiva monad systems, see Leibnitz and Jainism, in Thunder Trigram, out of tamas guna in Middle Daughter Yin, rajas guna in Eldest Son Yang and sattva guna in Youngest Son Yang generating free will in Flame Trigram and the evolution of monad and monad formation penetrating the lowest levels of the infinitesimal, from pure energy through physical chemistry, biochemistry, biology, as shown in the 64 stages described above.

Allan Ralph Andrews, 8/27/2015

The problem with Anil Ananthaswamy, and LeDoux and the neuroscientists, is that they are finite game players in the Finite and Infinite Games system described by Carse, see above. These books are seeking titles, they are looking to win a game of finding the truth, describing the truth, finding the right drug for a mental condition, the correct treatment. This is a very different game that the game that the astrologer Liz Green is playing in her book The Astrology of Fate, referenced above. As Gilbert Ryle discusses in Dilemmas, or on page 79 of Concept of Mind, words have different sense, uses, just because neurology explains the brain aspect of consciousness does not mean that it explains all the “why” questions that come up in the discussion of consciousness. Liz Green appears to be playing something more in the character of the infinite game described by Carse above, her aims are different and her conclusions are different.

To show how both her game and the Anil Ananthaswamy game, the LeDoux game could be different dimensions of something larger seen from a different place, is why I constructed the 64 stage model seen above. It is crude. It is not a final answer. It is a very rough notion, a first guess, a starting hypothesis. But, why are all the atoms of things limited to the measurable. Why should a infinite flux that makes the improbable probable set out all the evidence where humans could find it. The scientific world view is too neat, to self serving to those that proclaim its truths, the people like the editors of Skeptical Inquirer that wish to sell subscriptions to magazines that are clearly operating as political rivals of the publications of religious fundamentalist. Political truth is a different animal from final truth, from religious truth, from “infinite game” mythology.

Our truths, our doctrines, our metaphysical notions are rival worlds with their own language and their own purposes. All are so beset with logical fallacies, pervaded by them, that none could possible provide us with a whole picture, with a final picture. We are left stumbling around with William James, not really knowing much more than he knew when he wrote Principles of Psychology, with not final answers. So I ask, why not Leibnitz and his monads, why can Descartes and his analytic geometry live happily in the land of rationalist metaphysics with Descartes as the lord of the Nous, of Cosmic Reason in Eldest Daughter Yin and Spinoza as the lord of God as the Hen One in Middle Son Yang, and Leibnitz and his monads as the lord of the Psyche of Plotinus, of the Youngest Son Yang of the Wind Trigram, but let Berkeley show how to have the Youngest Son Yang talk to the Nous of Locke in an empirical Eldest Daughter Yin, and Hume in a skeptical Middle Daughter Yin, finally giving all of this over to science, as Middle Daughter becomes quantum mechanics and atomic theory and neurology and Eldest Daughter becomes mathematics and information theory in a space time relativity that is ruled by Youngest Daughter Yin in the Cosmos of Earth Trigram that emerges in Thunder Trigram out of evolution as entropy rooted in the Eldest Son Yang laws of thermodynamics, that now linked with Middle Son Yang integration of all things generate a new cosmology in Water Well Trigram astrology and Lake Trigram synchronicity, the realm of Jung and Liz Greene and The Astrology of Fate, and of Richard Tarnas in Cosmos and Psyche, but emerging from an infinite game Heaven Trigram, where Eldest Son Yang thermodynamics plays Shiva the cosmic destroyer and Middle Son Yang plays Vishnu the infinite integrator and preserver, and Brahma is the creative principle in a Youngest Son Yang realm of sattva guna in the

pure root of the ultimate infinitesimal as the infinite flux that makes the improbable probable enters the Flame Trigram and plunges into the ultimate disintegration of all things in Middle Daughter Yin, but ripping all things open in the ultimate existential madness that twist chaos into the unseen roots of all things seen and wrenches the cosmos open and bleeding at it unseen anxious heart of hearts, refer here to Brian Swimme and his notion of the universe as a “Green Dragon,” see references above.

Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield California

When I first published the above systems as “Love,” Thomas Press, Los Angeles, 1974, I noted the connection with the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead. Returning to Whiteheads “Process and Reality,” Macmillan, 1929, I am struck by the connections of that metaphysical conception to the one presented here. Emphasis is put by Whitehead (op. cit., p. 398, on the contrast between the permanence we put at the center of our wheel, as Eldest Daughter Yin, and the flux that turns the wheel, Eldest Son Yang. Whitehead emphasizes the opposition of God as infinite ground to the world as the finite (op. cit., p. 411), our opposition between the Heaven Trigram and the Earth Trigram, so important to the Classical Chinese interpretation of the trigrams of the I Ching. The basis of this opposition lies in the contrast between integration in the one and the opposite in the many, our distinction between Middle Son Yang and Middle Daughter Yin. The final distinction is in origination, which for Whitehead is private, and the public, between “greatness” and “triviality,” our distinction between Youngest Son Yang and Youngest Daughter Yin (op. cit., pp. 340, 364, 402, 413). Whitehead’s final pairs of opposites are “joy and sorrow, good and evil, disjunction and conjunction…flux and permanence,

greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the World.” (op. cit, p. 402).

As discussed above, flux and permanence are our Eldest Son Yang and Eldest Daughter Yin, the turning edge of the wheel, the whirling pole of the sphere, the octahedron, and its axial center. Joy and sorrow, conjunction and disjunction, the one and the many are our Middle Son Yang and Middle Daughter Yin, and finally greatness and triviality, or for us the private creative self and the public created space time world, are the Youngest Son Yang and the Middle Daughter Yin.

God, in our system, is the Heaven Trigram of the three yang that is the infinite flux that makes the improbable probable, Shiva the destroyer at the flux pole, Vishnu the preserver at the infinite integration pole, and Brahma the creator at the creative greatness private self pole. And the finite world in the Earth Trigram in the natural systems of the finite aspect of Eldest Daughter Yin, the Quantum Mechanics and chemistry of Middle Daughter Yin and the space time relativity of the public space time world of Youngest Daughter Yin. Good and Evil are simply the Form of the Good as the improbable set point of this evolving system in the Eternal Objects that are Wind Trigram and its opposite in the temporal evils that are natural selection and the evolution of finite systems in Evolution as Entropy (see references to the work of that name above). Freedom and novelty as the Flame Trigram and necessity, determinism, and what Whitehead calls “Organism” are the Water Well Trigram opposite. All of this implies the final opposition of mind and speciation as Whitehead’s “Prehensions,” our Mountain Trigram, and their opposite in Concrescences and Nexi, our Lake Trigram and synchronicity, the Jungian collective unconscious. So we concur with Whitehead in a tetrahedron of basic elements, an Air

Element, Wind Trigram, of Eternal Objects, a Fire Element, Flame Trigram of creative choice, an Earth Element of actual occasions, of finite measurements and science, and finally a Water Element of concrescences and organism, which for us takes an Eastern, a Jungian, and involved Dharma, astrology, birth and rebirth, an unseen astral world of Hindu and Jain and Buddhist heavens and hells underlying the visible evidences of cosmology with an infinite flux of cosmogony with out end in an unlimited complex of time and space and time and space systems.

Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, California, Sunday August 30th 2015