I would like to request elaboration. I'm intrigued.
Well the Fractal God of Fractal Man is quite simple, really. It based on the simple observation that sentience is the by-product of complexity. Where immensely complex systems will develop "emergent properties" that are more than the apparent sum of its parts.
Fractals embody this idea, because out of a very simple set of instructions (small scale) if repeated, over and over with a small error introduced per iteration, the result can be very complex and varied. In other words, the sum of the parts can look very different from the parts themselves and yet both the whole and the parts are technically the same, save that the parts are imperfect copies of patterns that repeat over and over to form the whole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmxJ1KDR_s0This fits in my quasi-Christian ideology, because being created in God's image makes perfect sense to me. We are the same not physically, but in terms of our sentience. We can be very similar microscopically, but very different collectively in the large scale. In this context the fractal iteration is man, and the whole is God. Our typical error in faith is believing that we are "produced" as separate from God and subservient entities. In that sense most organised religions have it dead wrong. It's a "chicken or the egg" kind of question.
If you free yourself from the concept that you alone are very important, and accept that you are but a tiny speck in the universe while acknowledging the importance of your own sentience (you can't negate that, no matter how atheist you are!), you will see that you are tiny cog of a much greater system. The natural universe DID in fact reach sentience as a whole - and we are the proof positive of that, because we comprise that intelligence along with the billions, or even trillions of other sentient beings that must exist elsewhere in the universe. The problem seems to be that we cannot prove the sentience of the whole, (or perhaps we can't see it yet), and yet we know we are sentient ourselves.
What once were thought as being a random processes in nature (anything through geometry to population patterns, through even natural selection processes) have been discovered to be in fact a type of fractal progression. And the fact that everything came from a Big Bang, means that the whole is self contained and finite, and yet partitioned, and continuously partitioning into infinitesimal parts.
Since I believe in a single God, then everything that exists must be the same as Him and every sentient component is one of us. The sum of the components comprises a finite system that achieved sentience. In other words, We are God.
Alas, it's 3:30 AM in the Colonies, and I must go to sleep as I start work at 11AM in my very unglamorous job tomorrow (today). I will return with more details later on...
JW
