By: Zahir Ibrahim | Date: July 31, 2025 | Mindagent.substack.com
This is a Passage from the Preamble:
All have wondered about God from time immemorial regardless of their beliefs and culture mainly in relation to the first question that comes to any conscious mind on our own existence—“where do we come from”—which eventually leads to: “where does God come from”. That question progresses from infancy to the adult mind inquiring: “where does consciousness come from”. Both are the most fundamental questions of existence. And both appear unfathomable, inexplicable. I call this duet: The Hard Problems of Existence, borrowing from the philosopher of the mind, David Chalmers, calling consciousness the really “hard problem”. I believe the two questions, where does God come from, and where does consciousness come from, are really two facets of the same question. I intuitively feel the two inquiries are indivisible and cannot be separated as Western philosophers have tried to do.
These are passages from its Conclusion:
To be honest, some doubt has always remained in my mind whether this framework is sufficient to addressThe Hard Problems of Existence? It is, however, obviously a most compelling and necessary framework to be sure, as it avoids the absurd separation of its two facets into two independent questions when these obviously are not. Is this the real limit of human consciousness making ontological as well as epistemological headway? After which ‘Divine’ religions take over? I find that proposition still very unsatisfying, or perhaps is it merely humbling that I am staring at the very horizon of unknowability?
I mean this discourse is just too easy and straightforward. I had uncovered this ‘secret’ at age 20 as an undergraduate. And it has nothing to do with possessing any natural genius mind. It was obvious—not sure why Western philosophers wrestle with the problem so much:
The Divine religions—in particular monotheistic religions, especially mine, Islam, with its accompanying Scripture, the Holy Qur’an, deemed to be the unadulterated Word of God—assert a metaphysical ‘perfect One God’ who created all existence and its workings, but is itself beyond it.
The Gödelian logic demonstrates that God, if it exists, has to be beyond its own creation, and must be complete and self-consistent, i.e, be perfect, with no contradictions. Requiring no proof as there is nothing higher beyond the ‘beyond’, it must be self-evident, i.e, God must also be One with no divisibility.
No entity within God’s creation, (universe) can ever reach that ‘beyond’, unless it is itself both complete and self-consistent, which is impossible as its own existence is contingent upon God, thus it cannot be complete.
QED. Are we really done here? Is that it? Or is our human consciousness at present only limited by our shallow state of self-awareness, knowledge and understanding of the workings of the universe?
The Gödelian logic indicates that it does not matter even if we, as part of the universe, acquire infinite awareness and knowledge of the workings of the universe as a system. It will not address The Hard Problems of Existence beyond what is presented here!
Get used to it!
