Recurring Experiences
Our experiences appearing in time become evidentiary through their repetition, and through repetition they point to the laws.
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In the life of the Human, experiences appear clearly separated according to the laws of time, one after another, individually.
The true value of experiences becomes recognizable when the experiences appearing one after another in time appear again and again, repeating themselves.
Experiences thus become processes. Experiences that always appear in the same way under the same circumstances become processes, which prove the constancy of God’s laws despite the fact that the world appearing in time is continuously changing in the present.
The timeless, unlimited, and eternally valid law can appear in time because experiences appear in exactly the same way under the same circumstances.
The following verses define the fundamental types of processes through the plants listed in them, and based on their names, the names of the plants will signify processes that, beyond the definitions of the inanimate world, regulate the material appearance of the living. That is, the plants are the definitions of additional laws acting upon living matter beyond the laws of physics, which do not act upon inanimate matter.
The building upon one another of the laws determines the distinction between the living and the inanimate. This no longer needs to be defined separately, because every new definition comes into existence among the definitions that already exist.
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”
The following verse defines three processes as fundamental life processes, and the seed as the basic conditions of the process, through which a process appears exactly the same way under the same circumstances.
Grass signifies a fundamental process, a plant that reproduces from its root and is continuously present. It signifies life processes that we can identify by recognizing their constancy. The process does not repeat cyclically, but is continuously present as long as the living matter is alive. Such a process may be blood circulation, breathing, or heartbeat. It is continuously present in living matter, while this process does not appear in inanimate matter.
Grass: The fundamental processes of life.
A change in matter which, beyond the laws of physics, organizes matter into a living organism, and this living organism continuously renews itself and is at all times experienceable. An experience that is continuously present during our life.
Genesis 1:11–13
The following definition is Grass, seed-bearing, which is an important difference, because although the processes are similar, they are not continuously present. The seed contains the entire process, and the process will take place exactly the same way under the same circumstances, but the process has a beginning and an end. Repeating processes create the seed, that is, they have a concretely definable result, and this result is useful in itself. The seed, however, also contains the entire process, so the process can be known again at any time through possession of the seed, if we are able to create the appropriate circumstances.
Grass, seed-bearing: A finite process that can be repeated.
A process in the world that proceeds in the same way and has a result through which the same process is repeated. That is, a self-reproducing process. An experience that has a concrete result, which can be repeated and experienced multiple times.
Genesis 1:11–13
Seed: The fundamental conditions of the process.
The result of change, which contains within itself the repetition of the change again, even multiple times. Therefore, the process is within it, through which it can be experienced again.
Genesis 1:11–13
The fruit-bearing tree is a further definition building upon the previous definitions. This is already a process that arises from knowing the processes of life. As we come to know the processes of life increasingly well, we also recognize processes whose result is no longer merely a seed through which the process can be repeated, but a concretely useful result for the Human, which can be used in life. Through the seed contained in the fruit, we come to know not only the process, but are able to create a useful life process that has a concrete benefit during life.
Tree, fruit-bearing: Known process.
A change in the world that can be known through our experiences, from which the fundamental conditions of the process can also be understood, which we are able to consciously bring about again so that the process may take place again. The result of the process is useful for us in life; we create value through the use of the knowledge acquired.
Genesis 1:11–13
The definition of benefit, of value, is of fundamental importance in order to understand what the fruit-bearing tree creates, what the fruit is. This is not defined here, because the fruit-bearing tree does not signify the definition of value, but the recognition of the definition, knowledge, usable knowledge.
The meaning and significance of value appear later. Here the definition of the fundamental processes appears in the text, which creates value, and therefore we cannot yet define the fruit here, only the fruit-bearing tree.
The sequence and types of experiences, through the definitions, appear in time as processes, whose repetition will make the laws recognizable to the intellect.
Third Day: The sequence and types of experiences.
The third cycle of creation.
The continuous, recurring appearance of laws in matter. The appearance of the living in matter. It continuously provides the possibility for experience, for knowledge, and for understanding.
Genesis 1:13
Through recurring experiences, the laws that determine what appears in the material world become recognizable, and thus it becomes clear that without the definitions of the third day, the definitions of the fourth day could not be created.