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[HydrogenBond]

I would like to look at knowledge of good and evil or law. If you look at law of good and evil, the data that describes all such laws has two sides. One side defines the good behavior and actions associated with the law, while the other sides defines the bad behavior or actions, including the reaction by culture. Although this opposition is implicit of any law, the two sides of law are stored at two separate emotional valences. The images of doing good, by the law, gives one a sense of rest, security, etc.. While the violation of the law may give a sense of risk, fear of punishment, etc.

One way to model this is to look at law of good and evil as sort of a coin, with head and tails. The coin contains both at the same time. But due to the differences in emotional valance or association for each side, only one side of the coin is visable at any time. One can not do good and break the law at the same time, with only one set of actions. This would put one outside the law, where it would not apply. For example, say the speed limit is 55MPH. If we do 55 this a non-event. Since the coin is on heads, one may feel good about abiding by the law. If we go to 65MPH, or flip the coin to tails, so we are in violation, a feeling of risk may appear. One will no longer be as restful, but will have to keep a sharper eye for a speed trap. If we slow back to 55MPH, or flip back to heads, the anxiety lowers. One can only use one side of the law coin at a time.

Because this one coin of law has two distinct dynamics to it, this suggests that law is stored in the brain in two separate areas. It is one law, but to compensate for the extra associations, two storage areas are needed. The double sided data of the law, is broken into two separate pieces.

If one looks at law in general, the head side of all laws of good and evil tend to generate very similar emotional dynamics, while the tail side of generates risk and the fear of some type of punishment. The symbols of heaven and hell, sort of describe the polarized data. All the heads of all laws go to a calm, secure place within the brain. While all the tails of all laws have an association with punishment. This symbolism is describing how all law coins, by being tagged with similar generic valences and extended associations for heads and tails, become stored in the brain as two separate groupings.

The more primative parts of the brain, before all law, treats the coin of law, similar to the way, statistics treats the flipping of a coin. There should be equal probability for both head and tails. Yet to obey the law, one needs to throw heads all the time. Due to the natural odds, tails will needs to periodically appear. This is the basis for temptation. One can use free will, not act on tails. If we are aware the coin has flipped, we pick up the coin and flip it back to heads. The bible says, the law is good, but sin (tails) takes opportunity through the law (dual storage that fill the sin data base) to produce sin of all kinds. One may not act on it, but the tails of the law coins, will periodically appear to create temptation.

Often a religious person is plagued with irrational temptation. They are working so hard to keep tails always on top, that they begin to defy the law of probability, such the tails side keeps popping up. Someone less religious will more often express the more harmless tails, such that this satisfies, the probability, lowering the level of tempation.

Theoretically, if humans never had any law, such that the coin of law did not build up such a large data base, there would no temptation. That entire tails storage area of the brain wouldn't be there and instinct would take the place of both sides of the coin. Unfortuneately, the symbol of original sin, implies because law have been used for thousands of years, it has caused the human brain to have a coin polarization built in. If one got rid of law, the polarization tails would take over and cause chaos, trying to get the historical probabiltiy back in balance. Law caused the problem, but is necessary to contain the very darkness that it created, because of the tail side of law.

Let me give an example, the speed limit is 55MPH on a highway. Most people will stay close to the heads side of the coin, with a few using the tails side, so the probabilty function maintains better social balance. This social balance is why social law will cause some people to be tails. If we decided to take away the speed limit, entirely, such that no law applies for that stretch of highway, then tails can appears more often to make up for the long term imbalance. All of a sudden, anyone who feels good with speed, will speed. Others will poke along. This will make a very dangerous situation, with too many speeds at the same time. The result would be chaos. So law would have to be restored, to get rid of tails.

If you look at a coin, one can only see one side at a time. Even if the coin was balanced on its edge, one still can not see both sides at one time. The only possible way, would be to spin the coin on its edge, such that heads and tails appear to be close together during rotation. This is no longer flat or 2-D, i.e., cause and affect, but requires 3-D or spatial thinking.

The symbol of Satan in the tree of knowledge (law) of good and evil, is connected to the shadow side associated with the tail side of law. The symbol indicates a type of data consolidation, which creates an alter ego (tails) to the conscious attitude of the ego (heads). The ancients had an advanced understanding of the human mind. Many philosophers have attempted to reason this polarization trying to get rid of it.

The philosophy of Jesus, was connected to trying to get rid of law of commandments contained in ordinances, by nailing sin or the tails side to the cross. The tails and the sin was to die with him. What ended up happening was the early Christians still were under original sin, or the polarization was still part of their genetic make-up. With their faith, they were able to increase the amount of heads drastically, i.e., love. But the social balance was thrown off, such that, the amount of social tails, had to sky-rocket to maintain the probabilty function at that time in history. Culture is a like huge coin due to law, and the probability had to shift to the tails to compensated for this unusual shift toward the heads. This dynamics released a lot of pent up Satan (so to speak), to where the alter ego of culture, became the good side of the coin. The new temptation was to tempt death and overcome all fear, causing Christianity to spread. The social potential eventually lowered and law was restored.

Satan is not only symbolic of the inner alter ego of a person, due to the tail side of law, but also the social alter ego, since the entire culture uses the same coin of laws. A social alter ego appears in all human cultures, in an attempt to balance the tails. Nature is not based on good and evil, this is purely human. In nature, all is neutral became it is part of the 3-D balance, within nature. So nature is always spinning the coin, trying to create a natural balance of heads-tails. But original sin, makes it almost impossible for humans to follow. So we continue to need law. Maybe the compromise goal is to not add to it, but gradually skinny it back.