I've been reading about Paul Davies using the thought experiments about "Maxwell's Demon" sorting atoms in a gas into high- and low-temperature bins, to extrapolate how some biological systems seem to bootstrap their way from lower information content to higher.
Along the way, I've come across various arguable talking points. One is that Maxwell's Demon is a paradox, because the Second Law of Thermodynamics is violated.
More recent scientific explanations say that this is not so, because the demon has to occasionally clear its memory of previous information about the atoms in the gas.
Ignored in both cases is that a demon is a supernatural being, and probably continually maintains part of its existence outside of our physical universe--since everyone assumes that the energy expended by the demon is "free", and that it doesn't require any physical food.
Likewise, one cannot assume that it keeps its brain entirely within our physical universe, and that its memory is as finite as ours.
In the same way, for Schrodinger's Cat to be in the binary state of Dead/Not Dead, you have to ignore most of what physically happens at death, and all of the spiritual transition (whatever that may or may not entail for a cat) as well.
There is much to be gleaned from old books. Today I learned that the cutting to pieces of Rahab in Isaiah 51 can be understood as part of God's work in parting and securing a passage across the Red Sea for the escape of the Israelites from Egypt.
They weren't just fleeing the Egyptians; there were principalities and powers at work then, just as now.
The Israelites were significantly reminded of the Red Sea passage as they entered the Promised Land, Joshua 4 says, when God stopped the flow of the Jordan River for them to cross over.
There's also the prostitute Rahab who assisted the Israelites, whose God had easily defeated her namesake.
"Three souls flying home because I stayed behind"
One of the souls I've helped toward salvation suddenly flew home recently. This song helped me to really cry for the first time over it.
I happened to read about the Gadarene swine in Mark 3 this morning before coming across this piece, which mentions it.
David Clements mentions Michael Cocchini. A quick internet search tells me that they've worked together before, and that a different Michael Cocchini--and a Susan Clements--went fatally missing in the Smoky Mountains. At separate times.
Feels like a rabbit hole.
Much like Jonathan Cahn connects the major demons of ancient Israel to today's United States, Clements says that the spirits of the Nephilim are here and active.
https://joehoft.com/attorney-david-clements-mkultras-shadow-a-demonic-war-for-humanitys-mind/
