AR to AR: Starting from scratch in the other direction, ie as if I never had written the BH articles, and not given the AOJS lectures, what are the reasons for proposing human significance? And what would I have listed as the reasons others would give for considered humans to be insignificant?
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Versions of this book:
For some populations, 'Kabbalisitic' will not resonate, eg maybereligious Christians donlt like it? So maybe for them "Biblical" is a better substitute.
For frum Jews it's good, since I am talking of non-literal Genesis etc.
For ethical atheists with nmc, so it is about what exists for them beyond what science and materialism proposes to exist: Mind, and M & P, maybe FW, and maybe MR. Don't use Genesis example etc, not karma of plagues etc. Title:
For religious people with nmc
For Biblically-based religious non-Jewish people with nmc: Human significance and exceptionality as the image of the Divine, charged with the Godly task of stewardship of the planet and its life
A full QKC based on Genesis, MkM etc for frum Jews.
Combining my BH articles as is, and perhaps a few others, and maybe lectures (JBQ karma, AOJS 'convergence', blunder, etc), with some bracketing material and intro, but not much else. But it is still QKC. Is this only for Jews?
A full QKC based on Genesis etc but not for Biblically-religious people, but not atheists either, ie using Genesis only as a cultural reference which had great influence on how we think, what quetions we have etc.
"Kabbalistic Platonism"?!
Quantum kabbalistic cosmology book : incorporating material from Mind, "Why Consensus", "Cover Letter personal statement": Philosophical physics preface: Defining the word 'cosmology' via the phrase QKC; dust model leaves out everything, nmc
Human significance and exceptionality as the image of the Divine, charged with the Godly task of stewardship of the planet and its life
Tie-in to ecology global warming, anti-humanism of animal rights and ecology activitis etc etc: Humans are custodians of the planet, not a blight. So the book is not meant to be against the goal of the anti-humanists in terms of getting humanity to care about animals and vegetation and ecology/climate etc, but rather to see human nobility as God-like in its stewardship of life!
So there's material in chumash parsha FB posts of relevance to this.
ie book is re human significance and exceptionalism, however that is just to make it all the more urgent that we act in our deisgnated roles as stewards of all else.
Humans are at the pinnacle, eat that whcih combines rain and minerals etc, all from star-stuff, elevated IF we us eit correctly etc, and that includes our role as guardians of the garden.
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Title/theme: Humanity's God-like role of stewards of our Garden-Planet: snake had it slightly wrong (as in my chumash FB post), to be holy as God is holy, to be LIKE God, not to BE gods. ANd the more we are stewards of life the more we are like God.
So human significance is due to what we can accomplish with humility of service to others including animals, vegetable life, minerals, the atmosphere, and Earth as a whole.
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The different related books and versions:
Though I used to think of the inst un and the retro inst un as two versions of the same book, then the retro became the more sophisticated version, stressing nmc etc, now I feel that it is one book, ie the title "Retro Inst Un" belongs to a book where that idea is the main one, ie the notion of the age of the universe, ie the fundamentalist version of instant universe book, and that book can have two versions, for mc's and nmc's. In other words if there are mc biblical fundamentalists however counter intutive tha tmay seem, they need an mc-focused inst un book. And an nmc-version for others. Or one book, with the nmc-aspect added as 'option' to those readers?
The focus of the SIgnificance book is on humanity, so it is in some sense a version of the retro inst un book which focuses on the notion that humanity's emergnce set the timing for creation bec humanity is what is significant in the created universe, so the timing at the eergenc eof humanity is imprtant as an indicaiton of humanity's significance, not as an indicaiton tha tthe universe is only 6,000 years old etc, ie Biblical fundamentlaism.
So the title of the book should be something along the lines of "Human SIgnificance in the view of QK'c C" or adding "in contrast to human insignificance and even .... as seen by atheistic materialsim"..And all my BH articles presente din that light, and the inst retro un idea also, as simly a way of indicating how the Biblical view can be seen as promoting human significance. ie the Bible is not about God as Supreme Being and humans as its subjects, but rather enblign humanity by showing what God is and then explaining that human are in the image of god, at their essence the 'brwath of God'. Not insignificant or a blight on the planet but the opposite, God's image/breath, the pinnacle of creation, but indeed with the duty "le'ovdo uleshomro".
In other words I can stress that the various philosophical approaches differ as to what can be said about human significance, and paradoxiacally it is the Biblical religious approach which has the greatest notion of human significance, eg atheist materialsim tends to human insignificance and even anti-human.
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Initially the idea I had for a new book was:
The collection of BH articles --> Significance of humanity, the evo material needs to adapt to be about human significance.
If this book now --> QKC book, I need to indicate the connection, eg the title fo the book can be something like: "The QKC'l view of human exceptionalism & signficance".
And the evo material needs to adapt to be about how Genesis, as viewed not in the ordinary way as perhaps a story of an All-Powerful God commanding human obedience etc, but rather when seen through a combination of a specific set of lenses, Q, K'c, Cos'gy lenses, leads to the notion of human significance/exceptionalism.
One can see this in terms of 'universe models':
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QKC can include material from my chumash material:
re Karma MknegedM (plagues etc), and the JBQ articles
Astrology/yosef.
specialness of monotheism
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'ein od milvado': so physics & logic are less absolute than the spiritual level reality.
I can promote idea of all as in God's Mind, and as remez to this we see that there is a blurring of the distinctions between 'real' in the physical word, and a vision experienced by a human in the physical world, ie Rambam re the three angels vs Ramban, and hamashal hazeh eino klum (excuse to display my postcard), and so we take this as a hint to the next level of 'ein od milvado', so there cannot be refutation of free will just because the physical universe is qp-based ie PDR, and because logic does not understand how fw could chose.
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