Patricio Valdes-Marin

Paraphrasing the beginning of the Gospel of St. John (1, 1), we assert, “In the beginning, the infinite energy was in the universe.” Energy, which is not created nor destroyed, but only transformed —according to the first law of thermodynamics—, which should not be thought of as a fluid, as it has no time nor space, which its effectiveness is related to its discrete intensity, and which is the principle as well as the foundation of matter, cannot exist by itself, but must be contained or dependent. And God caused and liberated it in an instant, at about 13.7 billion years ago, codified it and gave it infinite power, creating the entire universe. Cosmology called this 'explosion' "Big Bang". The Big Bang can be defined as an instantaneous, irreversible, and definitive transfer of infinite energy to our material universe since its birth. The energy that this agent supplied to the universe, such as if the universe were a system, does not end up in disorder, but it uses up to generate and structure matter. The Big Bang, which would be no other thing than the divine blow, is the very instant of the creation and from our own perspective is equally the cloak that wraps the whole universe. In the same degree that an object moves away at near light speed from the observer, which according FitzGerald’s contraction the object-observer common axis shortens, we state that to keep symmetry the object’s transversal plane reciprocally widens until identifying itself with our own universe’s periphery. Reciprocally, the special theory would say that for an observer, in this case God, located right in the Big Bang, time would have been so great that even an infinitesimal fraction of a second would have elapsed. Again, for this observer the distance would have been reduced to zero, as if the Big Bang were the base of a trunk that holds the vastness of the universe, giving it unity through a huge cause-effect relationship. Since the entire universe had a single, common origin, then the same natural laws govern all cause-effect relationship among all things. For the cause enthroned in the Big Bang, despite being at about 13.7 billion light-years away in the past, every part of the entire universe would be in its own present time, while the manifestation of causality would mutually be present throughout the universe.

The universe forms a unit on energy that does not support spirit-matter dualism, as postulated by Plato, Aristotle and Descartes. The universe, in all its diversity, is made of energy and nothing can exist there that cannot be made ​​of energy. Thales of Miletus, regarded as the first philosopher in history, posited “water” and its three states as the clue to include universe’s diversity; after him others suggested different entities as things foundation; later on Parmenides invented the concept “being” to give unity to reality, this concept bewitched the whole afterward philosophy; the idea of “energy” is presently proposed for this same metaphysical effect. If from Heraclitus onwards philosophy started to speculate on the change that happens in nature, science instead observed everywhere particular set of things casually related as systems that are transformed in deterministic manners according to the natural laws that rules them and  it saw in them, not changes, but processes. Time and space are related to process. Both are not Kantian a priori categories that dwell in our mind. Time measures the duration that a process has and space measures its extension. The myriad interactions originated since the Big Bang are the space-time of the universe, where every being or observer exists at his very present time and everything else is between his near and distant past, where the Big Bang is at the greatest distance and is the youngest entity in the universe. The maximum speed of the interactions is that of light. Gravity is the product of the mass with infinite energy that travel away from its origin in the Big Bang at that speed and is forcibly separated angularly from the rest of the mass of the universe, so the universe is a huge machine which, because of its radial expansion (not as a cake in the oven) generates gravity, having as a consequence its asymptotic thinning. And this force plus electromagnetism together with the other two known forces that they cause within the atomic structure produce the incessant structuring and decay of things.

Some scientists apparently observe a complete indeterminism since the beginning of the universe, being able to unexpectedly evolve in any direction. They don’t consider the fact that the universe has followed a path that has not been at all bewildering and that what is structured has relative stability. So primeval energy transformed itself into the universe, which started to radially expand at the speed of light while it has been developing and evolving, self regulated by the possible in each possible structural scale. Energy comprises the codes for the structuring fundamental particles of matter. These particles are highly functional to relate themselves since then they acquired infinite energy, which led them to expand at the maximum possible speed (light speed) from the Big Bang. The universe we perceive is energy structured on two basic forms: as mass in the famous equation E = m · c² and as electric charge (positive and negative). The conversion into electric charge also required a lot of energy. The force to overpower the resistance between two charges of the same sign is enormous. Just 100,000 unipolar charges (electrons) united together in one point would exercise the same force as the gravity of the whole mass within the Earth. Functional points or timeless and dimensionless energy centers generate space-time when they interact and relate causally between themselves also through energy, structuring relative permanent links, generating the existing diversity, which is ruled by the complementarity of structure and force, and producing kinetic energy and/or undulations that we can feel, that can affect us and through which we can also affect others.

The world appeared to our ancestors naturally as chaotic and disorganized, existing there birth, enjoyment, and regeneration as well as death, suffering, and destruction. They strove to give explanations to account for this arbitrary situation and it turned out to be largely mythical. Now, through modern science, we can objectively understand the world and its evolution and development. The domain of science accomplish the cause-effect relationship, which is determined according to natural laws, being valid for the entire universe, and that is virtually all that we know with more, less or total certainty. Scientific hypotheses conclude in the definition of the natural laws that rule causation in the universe through the empirical proof and observation. Science reveals that in the course of its existence the universe has developed and evolved into a growing complexity of matter, which has been structured in inclusive scales increasingly multifunctional. From subatomic, atomic, molecular and biological structures to the psychological, social, economic and political the structuring in larger scales has not ceased. The structures, which are ordered from fundamental particles to the universe itself, are discrete functional units that make up larger scale structures (for example, there are just a hundred of relatively stable types of atoms and about just 40.000 types of proteins) and are composed of discrete functional units of smaller scales. The most complex structure and highest functionality is the human being, specifically, the homo sapiens of the mammal order of the primates.

Such as every animal with brain, which has come to adaptively relate to environment through knowledge, affectivity and effectivity and which primarily need to satisfy its prime instincts, fixed by the specie, of survival and reproduction, human beings are capable of generating psychic structures (perceptions and images) from the biological and electrochemical materiality of their nervous central organ and the feelings provided by the senses. But unlike any animal the most evolved human brain is capable of rational and abstract thought and can structure in his mind an entire logical and conceptual world, from images, which seeks to represent the real world that he experiences and understands the meaning of things and of himself. In his mind he structures the ontological, logic and even metaphysical relationships and can understand the causal relationships of his environment. To support this he helps himself with the language system used to communicate symbolically with other human beings and also to accumulate information and develop learning and culture. The reality he knows is the sensitive and, therefore, the material. The reality he knows is undoubtedly contradictory since it is chaotic and disorganized. There exist both birth and pleasure as suffering, death and destruction. His more human action in the world is intentional and responsible, and that comes from free will, which is the result of his deliberate reason. On the same scale his emotions, beyond feelings and emotions, is structured itself in feelings. Seeking to live life as plentifully as possible, human individuals organize themselves in societies that look for peace, order, defense, welfare and the exploitation of economic resources through cooperation and justice, although very imperfectly, since some forcibly satisfy individual necessities immoderately and others overpower and exploit the rest. They are objects (not subjects) of the recognized rights as fundamental by the civil society and safeguard by its political power institutions.

When man reflects on why he himself, leading to the persuasion of his own radical singularity, his psychic multi-functionality is unified by and in his consciousness (or he himself) not mechanically, but transcendentally and moral. Transcendence is the step from materialized energy, which is self-structured and is functional, to dematerialized energy, which the person structures by himself. If any entity is structured from parts that belonged to other entities and that will belong to new entities, a person is itself structured from energy that will remain ever since structured. Human consciousness is to advert that the subject is unique and that his existence happens in an objective reality that his intellect represent it as truth. But transcending this materiality that he knows is what is called “spirituality” which comes to be the structuring, which is the product of intentioning or will, into what we can call deep consciousness, indelibly forging energy in itself in its dematerialized mode. The starting point in this transit into the immaterial is the intentional action, which depends on reason and sentiments and which relates to the other through love or hate; it identifies itself with the exercise of freedom and self-determination, which is what characterizes human being. Deep consciousness recognizes that reality is not only material but also transcendent; it can be known with different eyes then those that see sensible reality, so that it can be opened after individual physiological death. The soul does not pre-exist in a world of ideas, in the style of Plato, to join the body at the moment of conception, but it is forged in the course of intentional life. This metempsychosis transforms the immanent (the changing matter) into transcendence (of immaterial energy). The structuring of a singular sameness as reflect of his psychic activity of his particular deliberation is the crowning achievement of evolution that, from single matter, produces structured energy. So human being can be defined not as a rational animal but as a transcendent animal who passages from the animal to the personal energy. From this perspective the purpose of life is double: to live plentifully and to have in mind afterlife and its demands. These explanations are speculative and certainly not settled on any scientific knowledge, since they are outside the scope of the material, but are in line with the recognized mystic and para-psychological deeds and emerge considering the scope of energy, which includes both the material and the immaterial, instead of the dualism of metaphysical being.

And when death, a property to any biological organism, breaks down the structure of the individual, the person remains, who is properly the structure of the he himself of purely differentiated energies that have been merged into his deep consciousness during his lifetime. Death means the irreversible destruction of the bond between the structured energy of the he himself, who is immortal, with his body of structured matter, which contained it, manifestly incapable of existing now. Considering that it is unnecessarily to satisfy the biological instincts of survival and reproduction, in his new state of being the personal he himself is released from energy use of the material surrounding and thus of entropy, which also means that his action cannot have effects on matter. Also our treasured knowledge and experiences of the reality of the material universe that we perceive through our animal senses as well as our form of rational and abstract thinking and memory based in our biological brain disappear. It would instead emerge a new, nonmaterial, transcendental, pure energy form, but implicit in our deep consciousness, incomparably more marvelous to know and relate ourselves that correspond to such mysterious reality that would present itself, which is virtually impossible to know during our earthly lifetime. But the person, now reduced to the essence of his being, needs and eagerly seeks a container for his own structured energy to demonstrate and express himself. The hope is that in his life he who had somehow acknowledged God and had been just and benevolent according, for example, the evangelical teaching, will finally be able to access at death the mercifully, lovingly, and goodly Kingdom that Jesus knew (through OBE?) and announced, and will exist fully. The condition in his “afterlife” will be a matter of personal moral choice. Therefore, not being immersed in materiality, space-time that keeps him separated from God will not interpose itself. The energy originally caused and released by God returns to Him structured in love.

Note. This synthesis relates the context of the philosophical work entitled The Universe, Its Things and Human Beings, whose links to their books and chapters can be found in http://unihum.blogspot.com

Bibliography:
Patricio Valdes-Marin, Structure, Force and Scale. http://www.structureforceandscale.blogspot.com/.
Patricio Valdes-Marin, Geometry of Very High Velocities. http://.unihum1metrocosmos.blogspot.com.
Patricio Valdes-Marin, Existence after Life. http://unihum8existencepostlife.blogspot.com