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ANNOTATION:
God and the supramental
I agree that God cannot be proved by an argument or a logical formula. However, God can be and is known intimately by direct experience through scientific processes and experiments (i.e., yoga by whatever name).
One concept of God that might be extrememly worthwhile to examine in light of the general theme of the Principia Cybernetica is Aurobindo's conception of the Supramental plane. My intention here is not to proselytize, only to indicate a valuable conception of God that is founded entirely on the basis of an evolutionary philosophy, yet is decidedly not pantheistic and is not even hinted at by your treatment of the subject. So I thought I'd bring it up.
According to Aurobindo, the Supramental plane acts as a link or a bridge between the unmanifest Absolute and the created universe. It could definitely be seen as the "highest level of control in the Universe." But one key difference between his vision and the one presented on the Principia Cybernetica is that Aurobindo does not equate God with the universe, neither does he assign to God a purely transcendent state of being... rather, in the Supermind, the individual, the universal and the transcendent are unified in one integrated consciousness and experience. At least, that is his description of it.
In my humblest opinion, this kind of integral conception of the Divine, which takes into account the fact that God exists forever beyond this creation as well as in deep identity with it, would lend a much more powerful, balanced, authentic and suggestive voice to the Principia Cybernetica, at least in regards to its contemplation of fundamental philosophical questions.
Regards,
Jeremy.
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