Religion as seen through the eyes of feedback

For the purposes of religion feedback implies a lot. It implies; self awareness, self reflection, self knowledge and conscience. You know who you are. Here empathy is seeing people as alternate feedback loops. Each with their own personal history, experience and point of view. Here the self is a dynamic loop. Here feedback is the sustaining soul. The fundamental process behind all things.

Feedback comes in many forms; For example a child learns religion. Then they grow up and teach it to there children. And so the cycle returns. In another example, DNA makes copies itself. This is life. And again the cycle repeats. Because without these loops, there would be no life. These loops could be loops of self reflection, or loops of reproduction. They could be primary loops, or derivative loops. But the fact remains, feedback is the glue that connects life to the energetic flow of the universe.

Like a waterwheel in a stream. Or an engine powered by gasoline. The flow of energy makes for things that go round and round. But feedback is more than simple rotational movement. Feedback involves information moving through many forms. For example; DNA makes RNA. Which is transformed by the ribosome into the proteins that help DNA function and reproduce. For another example; When there's an object in your hand, there's an image in your eye. Then there's a thought in your brain. Muscles move, and again it's back to your hand, and the object.

Every part of the loop contributes to the loop. And in this way feedback extracts information from the non-living world. Feedback loops survive because, in one way or another they reflect, or know about, the world in which they live. The survival of the loop certifies the loop, and everything it stands for.

Seeing yourself as a kind of feedback loop is not an obvious thought. It's more natural to identify with the wants and needs of the body. And obviously, being inside the loop makes it hard to see.

This dynamic process of self-creation, is all around us. The Octagod is a system of thought based on the Big Bang and its cultural implications. So when comparing life to the outward flow of energy, and the degenerative qualities of entropy, feedback and it self sustaining properties immediately  stands out as a key player. Feedback is the linking system that connects life, to the world of non-life.

The processes of life are circular. They go to return, While the things of the Universe are more liner. They move to decay. As time moves forward feedback returns. Feedback gives the world its meaning. By its very nature it knows its own local future. By its very nature it creates itself. Born from the Universe, by its very nature, it is the silent eternal creator of life.