Adonalsium wanted to convert from theistic to pantheistic?

[Ripheus23]

Or even panentheistic?

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CosmereQuestioner

The background to my question is this:

It was once stated by Mr Sanderson that "Magic in the cosmere needs a guiding force.  If it doesn't have one, the magic itself will gain sentience."  We also have that things like Nightblood that gained sentience because of crazy amounts of investiture.

My question then is:

"Is the reason that investiture has this tendency to lead to sentience caused by the fact that pre-Shattering Adonalsium had a goal/purpose/intent of bringing sentience to his universe."

(I guess this is in a way a 2 part question, because it assumes that Adonalsium actually HAD the intent of bringing sentience to his cosmere)

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, this is part of the reason.  Good question!

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Granted, the WoB's wording leaves it open whether "bringing sentience to his universe" means creating at least one sentient being inside his universe, or making his universe itself sentient. However:

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[Khriss] I've begun to wonder if something greater is happening on Sel than we, at Silverlight, have guessed. Something with origins lost in time.

Also, Adonalsium making a minimum or otherwise low-finite number of sentient beings doesn't seem like a time-spanning purpose. Turning the whole set of stellar systems into a conscious being, though...

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Herald (paraphrased)

Is there more significance to the 10 other planets around the Rosharan star system and them being gaseous? We know that Roshar's moons have unnatural orbits; so there seems to be some astronomical manipulation in the system.

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Yes there is significance of 16 in cosmere and 10 in Rosharan system.

Herald (paraphrased)

The outer 10 gas giants in the Rosharan system suggest a tie to the number 10 that predates the arrival of the current Shards. Is the prominent numerology we see around the cosmere an inherent property of the planets, rather than the Shards who invest them?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Big RAFO.

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Taldain's is another very fine-tuned system (I don't recall if other Cosmere systems are so finessed). Of course in a universe with trillions of galaxies and exponentially more stars, the Rosharan system and the Taldain system might have emerged by happenstance, rather like how Earth IRL seems to be a "lucky" planet (right distance from the sun, one decent sized moon, Jupiter sucks in lots of asteroids that might hit Earth, etc.). But the quasi-fractal continent of Roshar was formed at the will of Adonalsium as such, so I suspect that either Adonalsium directly created the fine-tuned systems in the Cosmere star-set (I also wonder if it was the people of Yolen, using Adonalsium's power, who were the vehicles of these possible creations, but that's another story for another time ), or gathered them from across the rest of the universe.

But so anyway, the assignments of numbers to planets would be part of a "programming" Adonalsium was engaged in, maybe. Like, he sets up all these gear/clockwork star systems, spins them (Cognitively speaking) around specific numbers, which become inputs into arguments whose output values add up to... well... things like now-Sel, I guess.

The religious theme would be: the God Beyond is the hypothetical transtheistic being. Adonalsium is a baseline theistic entity in an open theism (process philosophy) context, so that the theology of the Cosmere transitions from theistic to pantheistic/panentheistic.