Note 175

We are all god, but in a less than perfect structural form.

We confuse teleology with history. Teleology is the perfection of structure at each point in time, not a perfecting of structure across time. So god is the end point of teleology.

Note 174

Structures are like gods. Like gods, they are arbitrary and necessary.

Content is the loss of form in its expression. It is so easy to imagine a different one, like countries without borders. And I would be restructured too, as an extension, a sensemaking of the structures of life. So the gods are not worshipped, but practiced.

They are not an object, but a part of me, in the same way that walls, doorways and arches structure a room. I become the room, and find others too, who have become their rooms, and so can create more rooms.

Are we gods then? No, we are reliant on them, they give us form, and we give them content. In that content we infer our content to fill our form, the empty reflection.

Trilemma of Personal Identity

I am 3 things. A mirror, the one viewing the mirror, and the one whose image is reflected in the mirror.

One can only pick 2. This is the trilemma of personal identity. Is this a false trilemma? Is the world in the mirror the same as the world outside the mirror, which we can't see?

The first two make me an idealist. The first and last make me a materialist. The last two make me a dualist.