A Low Level of Randomness is Necessary
Background Reality: In Limitation Philosophy physical boundlessness is a logical necessity for the emergence of limitless personality. For a limitless personality to emerge from the matter of the universe the physical matter must also be limitless. Boundless is used in physical connotations (The Deity’s embodiment), and limitless is used for non-physical realities (The Deity’s personality).
Reminder: Anyone who believes they fully grasp boundless/limitless is unaware of the open-ended nature of these concept. There is no whole thing in our bounded sensibilities that can even be grasped. Contemplation of these things is an opportunity to “reach for paradigms, but grasp only heuristics.”
Today’s Thought: While having my first cup of coffee this morning I was thinking about the cognitively difficult concept of boundlessness. A concept I struggle with, and believe will always have a mysterious aspect that I am incapable of understanding. I realized that as a bounded being I will never have any experience of boundlessness.
It’s a bit surprising that I can even juggle the concept of boundlessness in my limited mind. My inability to experience it tells me that I cannot know it as an objective reality, and articulate it with definite descriptive language. For these reasons boundlessness is by nature inscrutable. Like the contents of the Deity’s limitless personality, our nature as limited being is the reason it is inscrutable.
Upon Further Thought: Later in the day I overheard a conversation about Complexity Theory in Self-Organizing Systems, where the need for a low level of randomness is an essential property. From an engineering perspective, that is, someone constructing a machine that does something, randomness can only create error. But natural processes are not human built machines, and a small amount of randomness is necessary to their self-organization.
Randomness enables, the creativity to organize in the first place, and the ability to adapt the the environment where the self-organizing is taking place. Unlike human machines built in quantity, which are built exactly alike, all self-organizing systems are considerably different, even when being of a distinct type. No two any colonies are as similar to one another as two widgets made one after another in a human factory are.
Random and boundless are abstract concepts, not concrete things.
While boundlessness is a logical necessity to my philosophical system, it seems to me that they are part of the same actual thing. Because the universe is boundless, randomness is a naturally occurring aspect of it’s operations.
Unlike our bounded creations, everything created in the universal process is in some way part of or is a self-organizing system, with a small amount of randomness having a part in its processes. A human built machine is a determined structure, premeditated and built to specification, and the creations of the universal process are not.
God is not at all like us, and creation by process is not at all like the creations of human designers.