#pantheistic

This pantheistic papyrus shows a god with multiple heads, four wings, a falcon’s tail, snakes on his feet, holding weapons, surrounded by flames -- in other words, completely and utterly powerful enough to help you. He tramples unfriendly animals like a crocodile, snakes, and a wild boar.

Where: British Museum

Q: If I said that "the universe is its own hardware and software" what theories and authors does that sound like?

A: The idea that "the universe is its own hardware and software" can be interpreted in different ways, but it could be related to several philosophical and scientific theories.

One possible interpretation of this statement is that the universe is a self-organizing system that operates according to its own laws and rules, without any external influence or intervention. This idea is consistent with certain philosophical schools such as pantheism, which views the universe as a divine or spiritual entity.

From a scientific perspective, this idea is similar to the concept of emergence, which is the phenomenon whereby complex systems can arise from simple interactions between their components, without the need for a central controlling entity. The universe could be seen as an emergent system that is self-organizing and self-regulating, with its own "hardware" (the physical laws and constants that govern its behavior) and "software" (the patterns and structures that emerge from those laws).

This idea could be related to the work of several scientists and philosophers, including:

Baruch Spinoza, who proposed a pantheistic view of the universe as a single, infinite substance that encompasses everything

Alan Turing, who developed the concept of a universal Turing machine, which is a theoretical model of a computer that can simulate any other computer or computation

Stephen Wolfram, who has proposed that the universe can be seen as a computational system that generates complex patterns and structures through simple rules and interactions (in his book "A New Kind of Science")

@onlinealtar-apollo

@onlinealtar-cernunnos

@onlinealtar-dionysus

@onlinealtar-hestia

@onlinealtar-morningstar

As a Pantheist I don’t believe in a specific deity as I believe we and the universe are all one and the same. Such that if there is a god, we are it and it is us. I see everything in the universe as different forms of the same energy that drives all life. 

Here's a terrific stela with a pantheistic Bes. He wears the double-feather crown, and his grimacing face is surrounded by little heads. His whole body is covered in eyes, and his erect penis ends in what looks like a dog's head. He has four arms; two hands hold a bundle of weapons and dangerous animals, one holds an ankh, one a was-sceptre. He has four wings and a falcon's tail. His feet are jackal heads. He stands on top of an oval ouroboros which contains dangerous animals including a hippo, a snake, and a turtle.