Perception? Time versus Matter
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ook into a mirror. There you will witness a replica of yourself staring back at you as if you were there. Yet, you know it is not really ‘there’. How can this be? Essentially, the answer is the same as when looking into the distance we call reality. What you see is there; yet not really ‘there’. This is because in both cases, you are looking through the lens of each eye to provide a mental image of what is visible to the mind. You are blind to everything that is not displayed by the mind. As the reverend Bishop and philosopher George Berkeley inferred: Esse is percipi (To be is to be perceived).
It therefore follows - there being no known exception - the human mind must exist. Without it, visible knowledge of reality would be forever impossible. From this it then becomes true that each person’s mind is an independent source of a greater reality derived from what is perceived. Therefore, that greater reality, when understood collectively, so as to embrace all percipients, results in the totality of a world comprised of mental perceptions. This comprehensibly is the only world we sensibly know as real. Because it responds to all our needs to maintain life. The natural laws which govern the world in which we live have been discovered from knowledge that is perceived to exist by the mind. Likewise, the victuals upon which we depend to sustain life are made available from the same visible reality.
Consequently, the sum total of all these individual, geographical perceptions, stored in each respective mind: when pieced together as a three dimensional jigsaw, would form much of the world’s geographical appearance. Moreover, it would be achieved as a ‘mental creation’. Now! Reverse the order in which this has been explained, and we have the ‘Mind of God’: also as both Percipient and Creator of all that is capable of being perceived by mankind as mental concepts of Creation.
This rudimentary step toward, replacing materialism with an idealist view of reality, is intended to open new vistas of how the world would change in response to its recognition. For example, the major sciences would lose the foundation upon which ‘cause-and-effect’ is built. Seeing it instead, as a design, featured temporally along the corridor of time by an Omniscient Creator who is mindful of everything. Yet, consider the alternative: the materialists’ point of view expressed by the late Stephen Hawking, together with Leonard Mlodinow, in The Grand Design: (pp. 216-7). “Chapter 3, our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the outside world. We form mental concepts of our home, trees, other people, the electricity that flows from wall sockets, atoms, molecules and other universes. These mental concepts are the only reality we can know. There is no model-independent test of reality. It follows that a well-constructed model creates a reality of its own. In other words; the same conclusion that was reached above. Except the source was a mental concept of time extending into the future of a preordained future: before perception banished each moment to join the annals of history.
Scientific materialists falter when asked: ‘What is time?’ Because time requires ‘time’ to create it. ‘Where then does time come from?’ The logical response is ‘The Future.’ But were this to be considered, it would validate the first section of this book. In which the names of 110 Pontiffs are identified in the same order of the published list, which dates back to 1595: when it was made public knowledge. Only the Creator of time, extending over 862 years into the future (from 1143 to 2005), could possess the pinpoint accuracy of this foresight. Therefore, a Creator of time and its perceptive content (in keeping with world events), exist in the timeless state of eternity. Whereas materialists have to conjure a physical but imperceptible duplicate world of matter. One that generates five, different, independent sources of data to account for the replicated models perceived by the mind, and furnished by natural laws that do not include knowledge of prescient events.
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