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    The universal Self possesses omnipotence (it has all the ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The universe is identical to God (one-thing pantheism), because the universe constitutes a conscious self with properties sufficient to count as God in the classical or neoclassical sense.

    The universal Self possesses omnipotence (it has all the power in the universe), omniscience (it could know the entire universe by biofeedback), and universal good will (since harming any part of the universe is harming itself).

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    Biofeedback(as a method for the Universal Self to achieve omniscience)
    Information your body or senses feed back to your mind about what's happening in the world around you.
    Universal Self(as the subject of the statement)
    The idea that there is one fundamental consciousness or reality that connects everything in the universe, rather than separate individual selves.
    Universal good will

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    (describing the Universal Self's moral motivation)
    A genuine desire to help or benefit all things everywhere without exception.
    omnipotence(Bruno's theological framework)
    God's primary attribute as designated by the Apostles' Creed, entailing that all possibilities are actualized
    omniscience(The passage tests omniscience against mathematical undecidability)
    The property of knowing everything; used here to probe whether divine knowledge extends to undecided mathematical propositions.

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    On the other end of the spectrum from these varieties of theistic dualism, we find pantheism, the species of monism that takes the One to be God (a general model, 13). All monisms face a problem of unity: how are the many things in the world integrated enough to call them One? But pantheisms face an additional problem of divinity: even if all is truly One, does the One have what it takes to be God? Here we will focus on two contemporary pantheisms, both in Buckareff & Nagasawa (2016): what w

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