Your use of Nick Bostrum shows you are using another human to make your point, so your belief in God is just a belief in an another human. Who created the place for God to be, and who decided that God exists? it is a fact that it came from the mind of another human. If God is a being then God would need a place in which to exist.
The Bible itself is contradictory in it’s description of the God they write about.
I did listen to the presentation and Dr. James Gates acknowledged that this is still at theoretical levels, coming with a test to show that he is correct is not here yet. As it is with a lot of string theory BTW.
According to the Psalmist all are gods. Jesus used this in John 10 to show why he called God his father. In olden days the word God didn’t mean the same as it does today, it was some one (or something) that had great power, hence the sun Gods, thunder , and lightening Gods and the Pharaohs could claim they were Gods.
I have only been registred here for a few years but the one thing that has stuck to me is that matter and anti matter cancel each other out. When I heard that for the first time my view on a supreme being instantly changed into believing we are a simulation and our reality is only ours and possibly the universes which is also nothing but a simulation. I don’t see how it could be any other way. I also don’t see why it really matters at this point.
If all of this proves anything, it certainly doesn’t prove that Leonardo diCaprio is God; it proves that I am God. I know that I have self-awareness because I directly experience it–cogito ergo sum and all that–which would hardly be necessary for me to fulfill my role in some hypothetical Leonardo diCaprio-centric simulation–it’s not like Leonardo and I have ever even had any direct interaction, so there’s no need for me to be even a remotely convincing NPC, let alone a program fully capable of passing the Turing test.
Frankly I have no idea why I had Them simulate some of you people. As soon as I wake up, I’m demanding my money back and giving this game a terrible review on the OmniNet.
How do you get to that conclusion from the mutual annihilation of matter and antimatter? The two concepts seem to have nothing to do with each other.
(Now, some people have said that the presence of polarized forces – negative and positive electric charge, north and south magnetic poles, matter and anti-matter – imply an underlying duality to the cosmos, and that other, greater, metaphysical polarities are to be expected: good and evil, God and Satan, etc. But that’s merely philosophizing from analogy.)
How do those people explain the Avengers or Justice League? If good guys are manifestations of one side of the duality of the magnetic pole, shouldn’t they repel each other?
You really have not followed the history of unrest in the group so typical of Marvel titles? It is hard to remember any member of the Avengers that has not resigned at least once from the group. But, they get over it very quickly.
I never got why people proposing these flights of fancy say"a simulation indistinguishable from reality ". If we are in a simulation we have no clue what reality is.
Interesting OP. Why does the simulation require conscious, self-aware humans? Don’t the sim humans need only behave that way, reacting as a conscious human would? Leo doesn’t care, does he?
Another problem with the simulation hypothesis: It’s irrelevant how many simulated worlds there are. What actually matters is how many people-years of simulation there are. Even if we could create computer simulations advanced enough to contain self-aware entities, we probably wouldn’t simulate an entire world for thousands of years. It’d probably be enough for our purposes (whatever those purposes might be) to simulate only a few thousand individuals to full detail, with other individuals simulated to less and less detail the further they are from the main core, and with the simulation only running a few decades at most, not for the thousands or millions of years of full human history. So even though there might be more simulated worlds than real ones, there are likely to be more real people than simulated ones, and so any given person who asks the question “am I a simulation?” ought to answer “Probably not”.
When Martin Freeman hosted Saturday Night Live, there was a skit where the office Bilbo worked in was staffed by characters and creatures from Middle Earth.
The thing that’s wrong with this world is not that people make arguments like the OP. It’s that anyone gives a shit about the question in the first place.
I find all of these philosophical “proofs” of God to be utter timewasting bullshit that don’t actually mean anything outside of their carefully constructed philosophical framework. It’s not reality. It’s people with too much time on their hands doing things that are neither necessary nor relevant.