John D. Brey
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Doesn't the title say it all? Who needs a thread with a title like that?
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The Physics of Isaiah: Spying the Superposition of the Monotheistic God.
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John D. Brey
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In a day and age when information is so readily available to read and study at the drop of dime, the serious student of the scripture, in this case the student of the book of Isaiah, has genuine cause to wonder out loud concerning the strange antics of the expert exegetes of the Jewish faith, i.e., the way they seem to tip-toe through the tulips of the botanical metaphors sprouting up throughout Isaiah's prophesies.
In a most perplexing feat of what at first glance appears blindness, the Jewish sages seem to refuse to use strong exegesis to connect undeniably parallel passages in the great prophet in a manner that would seemingly profoundly profit all interested in the suffering servant's great gift to humanity.
And yet in a thread produced a few years ago (become the essay, Weak Exegesis and Negative Theology), the supposed blindness of the sages was put into a propitious scientific framework showing that far from treating the text of Isaiah in a prejudiced or half-hearted manner, the sages are actually using an approach to exegesis and interpretation based on concepts so modern that it boggles the imagination to try and appreciate the brilliance of these Jewish sages and their understanding and approach to the scripture.
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The noted essay points out how studies of modern physics, particularly quantum physics, reveal the irony that attempting to peer too nakedly, or pointedly, into the interpretation of any aspect of reality can create countervailing forces that veil the very aspect of reality the examiner is trying to unveil:
In quantum mechanics, the extraction of information has an effect on the state of the information. In the thought experiment associated with Schrodinger's Cat, as well as the example of the deck of cards, gaining knowledge by observation has a real effect on what's observed, perceived, thereby changing the nature of what's being perceived by means of the perception of it.
In the Jewish concept of a "chok," or "chukkim" (a particular decree –or the decrees--given by God), Jews are prohibited from attempting to peer too closely, or deeply, into the rhyme or reason for the decree. They're to practice the decree, obey the decree, through blind-faith, rote-obedience, rather than contaminating the decree by dissecting it (making knowledge of it more naked) in order to gain a better understanding of what the point of the decree is: what does the decree mean.
In the Jewish concept of a "chok," or "chukkim" (a particular decree –or the decrees--given by God), Jews are prohibited from attempting to peer too closely, or deeply, into the rhyme or reason for the decree. They're to practice the decree, obey the decree, through blind-faith, rote-obedience, rather than contaminating the decree by dissecting it (making knowledge of it more naked) in order to gain a better understanding of what the point of the decree is: what does the decree mean.
In their decreed responsibility to the text of the Tanakh, as the guardians of that text, the Jewish sages are careful not to contaminate the text by trying to dissect it in order to find, and reveal, the meaning of the decrees, which God informs the Jewish sage is a revelation of reality that must await the arrival of Messiah.
No matter how desirous the Jewish student of Isaiah might be, regarding the unfathomable depth of the prophet's insight, he must "guard" the text that it not become contaminated by the nature of the information used to plumb its depths since according to the spirit of Israel's marching orders, only Messiah has the kind of information that will bring the greatest treasures of Isaiah out of the deep cavern covered up by the surface text without contaminating or destroying those treasures forever. Only the appearance of Messiah frees Israel from their responsibility to guard the text rather than using strong exegesis to nakedly reveal what's been hidden since the foundation of the world: the foundation of the world.
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In a thumb's nail scratch, or sketch, Jewish monotheism situates God in what physics might call his "superposition." This superposition is precisely the deep state of reality that's beyond or below the glance of the observer whose very glance would require God to take up a position that in some sense falsifies his state of superposition. In other words, an observation requires a duality between the observation and the observer that forces the singularity of the observed superposition into a mediate state between its utter singularity versus a reality state shared by the observer. Since this mediate state falsifies the utter singularity of the pre-observed superposition, in one sense the superposition must be sacrificed for the sake of the observer.
God must die if he is to be observed. And Judaism, in it's love and respect for God, refuses to attempt to observe the face of God knowing it would require the dissolution of the face of God in the very solution to what he looks like to an observer.
Jewish aniconism, the monotheistic refusal to see, make resemblances of, God, is based on the high respect the Jew has for God, as well as his deep, if innate, understanding of quantum physics and the distortions that can arise if the observer believes the observed isn't contaminated by the observer and his preexisting context/prism for the observation:
There is not a single sight, not a single sound, not a single sense impression which does not derive in the last analysis from one or more elementary quantum phenomena. Objective? Not until the observing sense, or observing device – by its geometry, its layout, and its adjustment – has chosen the question to be asked, and by its registration has made a record long enough lived to produce internal or external action, has an elementary quantum phenomenon taken place that contributes to the formation of what we call reality.
John Archibald Wheeler.
John Archibald Wheeler.
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John D. Brey
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The foregoing is not just a thumb's nail scratch, or sketch, that dissolves the pagan passion for believing sexual passions can play a part or parcel in the birth of Messiah. On the contrary, if the same thumb's nail that scratches the sexual lie is applied to the skin of the eye, then the circumcised heart begins to perceive a problem only the most profligate, profane, antinomian servant of God has ever seen, since nothing could be more disturbing than to actually look, after the bris, in hopes of seeing what more than one Jewish scripture implies is a theophany of the face of God.
Which is to say, in layman's terms, that if the observer can never see the Truth, which is Hashem, the face, of God, since his (the observer's) subjective apparatus for observation is more like a mohel's izmel, or a razor's edge, than a fisherman's net, then God is forever and infinitely outside of man's purview, because of the way man is forced to view what's perfect.
In a nutshell, man is screwed whether he's a Jewish guardian of God and God's revelation, or some other biological concatenation of Godworshipper come from the goy nations, since the observer can never observe the pure reality, of God, or anything else, since he, the observer, comes already contaminated by the biological predilections encoded in his genes, and the way his body responds to signals sent from deep reality.
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Is nowhere safe from quantum woo?
Wittgenstein pointed out that the eyeball isn't in its own line of sight. In other words the thing seeing isn't seen in the seeing. When Kant examined the same problem, he realized just how deep the rabbit hole goes for a person seeking a reality deeper than mere appearances since the same problematic way the eyeball hides behind its observation turns out to be the case for the brain that the eyeball sends its observation to for interpretation.
The brain takes the signals from the eyeball and determines whether the signal received by the eyeball should be interpreted as color, taste, or smell, shape, size, or distance. After cross referencing the signals from the ears, and nose, the brain hides behind the qualia it chooses for each organ as though it, the brain, is just an innocent by-stander serving up a mundane and obvious reality.
That the average person never questions the quality, or soundness, of the sight of the meal, the smell of the meal, or the taste of the meal, a meal served up by dishonest chefs who never sign off on their creations, i.e., who hide in the kitchen while they poison their clients to death, well, if they can get by with it that easy, who am I to cause a fuss?
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