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Barry’s comment:

Through the course of your gestation, your infancy, adulthood and continuing into the present, through the senses, a record of every jot and nuance of the world that you encounter out there is taken inside as neurons that connect. We know, as we know, not as the world out there per say, and not as a magical picture of the world out there, but, step by step, as the billions of neurons, each containing no information, and each linking to other neurons all containing no information, but are linked together (via Hebbian connection) to produce our words and actions. And this activity establishes or is called “reality.” What I know of the world out there is a ‘slot view’ of what has significance to each of us, individually. Reality is enacted as we describe it (pain is saying “ouch”).

This reciprocal relationship: sensation in, body movement out, is our total connection to the world. There is no other fundamental. No memory. No magical picture of the world taken inside.

And most importantly, it is “probability” that rules.

1. Hebbian connectedness

2. Random Search

3. Probability

What does it mean that probability rules?

Where does probability exist in us? It exists at every junction. Since the very beginning of life on earth which is the electro/chemical fact of live existence, the beginning of life on earth with it’s primitive yet essentially electro chemical nervous system - it is probability that rules.

And that intangible, which is not us, is the mystery that is labeled god. God is not a person or a force that shapes reality from outside, but is built into the fabric of reality at every junction. God is in the numbers.

Knowing this leads to a humbling awareness - it aint me babe, it’s God rules, in the numbers.