Plasma Cosmology as the fourth form of matter (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, July 05, 2019, 14:52 (1946 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: If you think that your conscious God may be in the form of a gas (you wrote “I don’t know if He is in this gaseous form”) then clearly you think gas can be conscious! Yes, it would be a very special gas. And yes, of course God (if he exists) must be conscious. But if gas can be conscious, then why must it be one single consciousness? And why shouldn’t other gases also be conscious? And why shouldn’t other forms of matter also be conscious? And why shouldn’t different forms of consciousness combine to form all the different facets of the universe and life? I am, as you will gather, pursuing a panpsychist view of the universe – not through belief, but as an alternative to your view that plasma might possibly be one great big mind.

DAVID: Once again you are straining at apples and oranges. Plasma is a completely different form of a gas-like substance, a fourth form of matter as contrasted with ordinary gasses.

dhw: So what? You said specifically that you didn’t know if he was in this gaseous form. That means you think it is possible that this gas may be conscious.

DAVID: All guesses as to the actual form of God's mind is pure speculation. Theologians posit god is simple. I believe, since the basis of the universe is quantum mechanics God is in some form of quantum activity. Few thinkers think much of panpsychism as I have previously presented.

dhw: This is no answer to the point I have raised above. If you think a particular form of gas might be conscious, then maybe other forms of gas and matter might be conscious too. All guesses are pure speculation. That includes the very existence of a God, let alone what “form” or nature he might have.

The point you keep missing is plasma is a different form of matter and suggests a special place in the scheme of things. Thus God might be there