What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body

[Arkilogue]

I should clarify.  When I said "elements," I didn't mean things like form, color, and so on.  I meant the most primitive possible spark of mind, as opposed to totally not-mind.  It seems to me that mind must be binary-- either something does or doesn't have at least a tiny capacity to experience the universe.  So my question isn't so much about how I see a tree as a tree, but about how a very simple system might respond to say an individual photon.

As for evidence. . . I'm strongly agnostic on this position.  I don't think it is possible to know if ANY physical system, even another human being, really experiences the universe.  In the case of people, I strongly believe they do, in the case of incoherent object (i.e. where the parts don't allow for an integrated flow of information), I strongly believe they do not.  But in the case of say an atom or a galaxy, I haven't the foggiest idea whether they can experience anything, or how to go about determining whether they do.

Here is your binary mind:



It is both still and in motion. The central column is localized fluency, the outer-wrap is surrounding feeling. Electricity and magnetism.