Psalehesost said:
I agree, and like you said, it comes down to philosophical principles. I like the way William Dembski puts it in the title of his book, Being As Communion (A Metaphysics of Information). To be is to be in communion with other beings, to exist is to interact, which is just another way of saying that everything is information processing in action: receiving information from the world, processing that information, and being a source information for other information processors. Every physical and mental interaction is a part of this grand causal nexus that makes up the universe. It's impossible to exist without acting on, and being acted upon by, other parts of the cosmos, physically and mentally. So every interaction, from the tiniest subatomic event to the most macrolevel, affects something. It gets registered by at least some other tiny piece of the cosmos. If you weren't part of this causal nexus, you wouldn't exist.
Extrapolating from psi research, potentially every piece of information of this kind is available to other minds, whether unconsciously or (in rarer cases) consciously. And I think that F.W.H. Myers's views of the unconscious apply here too. Based on his own research into psi phenomena, he theorized that the further 'down' the subconscious you go, the more 'connected' subconsciousnesses become. So soul groups and species might be more connected than they are to other soul groups or other species. That gets into Sheldrake's ideas. And at the 'deepest' level, you have the Cosmic Mind, the universal information field, where everything is connected, registered, and accessible.
So I think that on the biggest level, probably every event, no matter how insignificant, gets registered. Perhaps that is the root idea behind divine omniscience. But when we go down to lower levels, where there are individual beings, our consciousness acts as an information filter. We know this is the case physically: we are mostly only aware of information we have received through the physical senses, and using normal mental processes (memory, thinking, etc.). Perhaps the events that act upon our unconscious minds are relatively limited, too. But it's also possible that everything acts upon our unconscious, but that something (the 'higher self'? malevolent beings?) affects which information is reaches us.
For instance, in some psi cases, important information reaches someone or makes them act in certain ways (e.g., apparitions from the dead, RSPK events). But in other cases, it doesn't look like this happens. So some questions might follow: What determines which information 'bubbles up to the surface'? Does it still affect the subconscious on some level? Maybe all such information is potentially accessible, but it needs to be relevant to our lives and our lessons in some way. And perhaps our level of being determines to some degree how much of this information we have access to. OSIT!
So I'm raising my hand as being interested in one selected and seeded by the crew, and would be willing to make extra donations for those that would like one but may not be able to afford it right now. That y'all already have so much on your plate and still wish to do more is beyond all inspiring and heart-warming words. :)
