Adaptable Transcendent World Model ATWM

Today I learned about the Israeli-American scientist Joel Mokyr, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his dual technological processes. Another Nobel laureate, David Kahneman,
proposes dual psychological type 1 and type 2 processes. In my opinion, these Israelites confirm my lifelong mysterious ideas:
Bridging Worlds: A Synthesized Model of Mind, Matter, and the Divine
For centuries, Western philosophy has struggled with a fundamental split, famously articulated by thinkers from Descartes to Kant, who separated reality into distinct and often irreconcilable realms. This metaphysical dualism stands in contrast to dual-process models that emphasize the dynamic and interactive tension between complementary forces. While Nobel laureates like Daniel Kahneman and Joel Mokyr have demonstrated the power of such interactive dualisms in psychology and economics, a richer philosophical integration is needed to address the nature of consciousness and the soul.
Here, I propose a speculative framework that synthesizes modern science, Kabbalistic mysticism, and cognitive theory through a dual-process lens, envisioning a profound and bidirectional interference between mind and the divine.
The intellectual traditions of Judaism, which shaped thinkers like Kahneman and Mokyr, have long engaged with interactive dualities. The rabbinic balance between Halakha ("the how" of practical law) and Aggadah ("the what" of ethical narrative) serves as a potent cultural precursor to these modern theories. More profoundly, Kabbalah offers a powerful model for reconciling the infinite and finite. It posits a transcendent and unknowable God (Ein Sof) that coexists with immanent divine emanations (Sefirot). The central challenge is not to eliminate this duality but to understand its generative power and the path to ultimate unity. Spinoza, a Jewish-born thinker, presented a different path, proposing a monistic identification of God and Nature to resolve Cartesian dualism. However, this led to his excommunication from the Jewish community, largely due to his rejection of a personal God and the divine authorship of the Torah. Spinoza's approach ultimately failed to capture the dialogical and dynamic dualism that is central to the Jewish intellectual tradition and is more suitable for describing human cognition and experience.
To construct a new framework, we can reinterpret the Kabbalistic act of tzimtzum as a metaphorical quantum event. In Kabbalah, tzimtzum is the initial divine contraction that creates a "space" for finite creation. This can be likened to the spontaneous and discrete events of quantum mechanics, a non-continuous leap from the infinite potential of the divine to the finitude of reality. Within this "space," creation is animated by "divine sparks" (nitzotzot), the informational residue of the shattered divine light. This synthesis allows for a new understanding of the mind-matter interface, one that is not merely physical but deeply informational.
This is where the Adaptable Transcendent World Model (ATWM) comes into play. The ATWM acts as the interface between the transcendental soul and the physical world. It is a dynamic, multi-layered predictive model that receives the ultimate blueprint and purpose—the divine sparks—from the soul. It then uses a Bayesian process to actively learn from the physical world through sensory input and feedback. The ATWM continuously refines its internal representation of reality, making it a computational engine for the "divine-matter loop."
The mechanism of this system lies in bidirectional interference, a process of constant comparison and adjustment.
1. Downward interference (Soul ; ATWM): The transcendental soul provides the ATWM with a consistent, overarching signal, an innate "prior belief" about the intended state of the world. This downward interference acts as a corrective mechanism, aligning the ATWM with its original divine purpose. Subjectively, this can be experienced as a flash of intuition or a strong sense of purpose.
2. Upward interference (World ; ATWM): The external world provides sensory data, and consciousness provides the phenomenal content of that data. The ATWM updates its beliefs based on this new evidence in a Bayesian fashion. This upward interference drives adaptation and learning, allowing the individual's worldview to evolve based on experience.
This model leads to a sophisticated redefinition of consciousness and the soul. Consciousness is not a separate entity but the active, ongoing process of Bayesian inference within the ATWM, balancing the upward and downward interference. The soul, conversely, is not a material quantum field but a non-material, transcendental information field. It remains separate from the physical universe but provides the innate, divine information that informs the ATWM, which in turn guides conscious development.
This synthesis effectively bridges the gap between science and spirituality by honoring the insights of both. It moves beyond rigid philosophical dualisms by proposing an interactive, integrated system where the distinction between spirit and matter is not a problem to be solved, but a dynamic, dialogical process to be experienced. The human journey becomes a conscious process of repairing the world (tikkun olam), with the ATWM and consciousness acting as a continuous feedback system, striving toward unity through a constant process of adaptation, learning, and divine guidance