“God is Blind”

The Logic of Emergence from Random Walk

By Bodhangkur

1. The One That Does Not See

In Finn’s Procedure Monism, the Universal Procedure (UP) is not a being, but a set of operative constraints (or rules) acting upon an indeterminate field of energy quanta. It has no form, perception, or goal. It is the infinite how, not any what. It functions as algorithmic rule-set, not as subject.

Hence, it cannot see or foresee.
It is blind, not by deprivation, but by necessity.
For seeing presupposes distance, contrast, delay, and feedback — all of which belong to local emergents, never to the universal source procedure itself.

The blindness of God is thus not a moral or emotional statement but an ontological axiom: the generator of all identifiable realness cannot itself be a participant in what it generates.

2. Randomness as First Condition

What does the UP act upon?
Not chaos as disorder, but random motion — the un-patterned kinetic substrate, the endless shuffling of quanta without purpose or direction.

This random walk is not an accident within reality; it is the foundational condition of emergence.
Without randomness, there is no variation, no surprise, no new form — and therefore no world.

Finn states that the UP does not create ex nihilo, but rather selects and stabilizes through constraint: it transforms random walk into meaningful sequence, turbulence into form. Every emergent, from particle to planet to human, is a momentarily stabilized random walk, bounded by rules that confer recognisability.

3. Random Walk as the Eyes of the Blind

The UP is blind because it has no foresight.
Yet through the randomness it constrains, it feels its way forward.
The random walk is the blind groping of the universal algorithm — the method by which the rule system discovers what works.

The Procedure does not plan; it experiments.
It does not intend; it iterates.
It does not see; it touches, collides, adjusts.

Thus every emergent — every atom, organism, or thought — is a contact-point in the random exploration of possibility-space.
What we call “creation” is nothing but iterated trial and retention — a blind dance in which form arises as the trace of constraint acting upon the indeterminate.

4. Seeing as Local Compensation

To see, to know, to reflect — these are local adaptations that emerge from within the blind exploration.
A seeing organism is a local eye evolved to shorten the feedback loop between trial and success.
Vision and cognition are tactical accelerations of the random walk.

The UP remains blind; its emergents see only locally.
Each local “eye” (for example, a human consciousness) is an aperture through which the blind Procedure momentarily perceives its own operations — not from above, but from within.

Hence Finn’s aphorism takes its full sense:

God is blind, and therefore must become eyes.

5. The Logic of the Blind Creator

The sequence of reasoning, within the Procedure Monist frame, unfolds as follows:

1. Universality precludes perspective.
The UP, being total, cannot see itself.

2. Emergence requires uncertainty.
Random walk is the precondition of creation.

3. Constraint stabilizes randomness into pattern.
The UP functions as the limiting rule-set.

4. Locality generates awareness.
Seeing is a derivative adaptation for feedback optimisation.

5. Therefore: The UP (i.e. “God”) is blind — its seeing occurs only as the emergent’s seeing.

6. Analogies for the Blind Procedure

· Evolution by Natural Self-selection
Evolution “finds” fit forms by blind variation and selective retention — a random walk across the fitness landscape. It has no goal, yet produces eyes.
Evolution, then, is the local performance of the blind UP within the biosphere.

· The Turing Machine
The machine processes inputs by rule, never knowing the meaning of its outputs. Yet the outputs form worlds of meaning to observers — emergents within its run.

· Quantum Mechanics
Particle trajectories are random until constrained by interaction (measurement). Each event is a local hard-copy of the UP’s blind procedural execution.

7. Philosophical Consequence:

The ancient theologies of India and the Middle East mistook blind necessity for all-seeing purpose.
They projected local awareness onto the total procedure and called it “divine intelligence.”
But Finn’s monism reverses the direction:
it is not intelligence that produces form, but form that evolves intelligence — as local compensation for the blindness of the generative system.

Thus, divine blindness is not defect but functional strategy:
it ensures continuous exploration and adaptation through stochastic motion.

8. The Druidic Formulation

God is blind.
The random walk is His gait.
Every emergent is a feeler that probes the dark,
a fingertip of the unseen whole groping for coherence.
When it touches and holds, we call it world.
When it releases, we call it death.

9. Summary

Within Procedure Monism, the random walk is the sine qua non of emergence. It provides the unending, directionless motion upon which the universal constraints operate to produce identifiable reality. Because the Universal Procedure lacks perception or foresight, its creativity is necessarily blind — it probes possibility-space by stochastic exploration.

Local seeing and knowing arise as adaptive by-products of this blindness. Thus, in Finn’s cosmology:

The blindness of God (=Nature) is the condition of discovery.
The random walk is the motion of divine ignorance through which intelligence comes to be.
We, as emergent observers, are the brief openings in that darkness where the blind God learns to see Himself.

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