![]() ![]() This is quite different from what the Christian god is treated as. It will have some limitations that even the creator couldn't know to control. If the universe is a simulation then I think it's likely that it would be a simulation like Conway's Game of Life. In a general case, the end result of the simulation is unknowable until you run the simulation. However, you cannot always predict what the end result of the simulation is without actually simulating it. You have complete control over the simulation - you determine the starting positions and you can mess with its memory while it's running to alter the current state. > Is it relevantly different here if you’re being dreamed in the mind of God or being executed in Python? External deities are intrinsically a toss up and acknowledging that does not make one conventionally agnostic. Typical atheism, even if not often articulated as such, believes that the world is what it is. Entities that are aesthetically deity like and have some sort of relevance that presents structure beyond observable physics. If you peel back the layers of agnosticism and atheism, they’re concerned with internal deities. There’s no form of rational thinking that confidently concludes there’s no external deities. But the important bit is that it’s “there”, with the power to influence or at least to justify a sense of spirituality. Perhaps they’re “in” the universe or not. Perhaps you consider it to be the originator of the universe, perhaps you don’t. It is for all practical purposes, irrelevant. There’s an important semantic distinction between an external deity and an internal deity. Why "gods", and not a bored teenager playing a game? Who would those gods be anyway that'd make us consider them gods, rather than just another species?Įh, no. The main reason to consider we're not in a naturally occurring simulation in some soup of matter is that it seems more likely, albeit a total guess, that more intentional simulations would have a higher probability of existing.īut arguing gods might be running a simulation, to me, seems borderline arrogant. If the "outer" universe is infinite, it only requires a non-zero probability and enough time. Simulation theory posits there might be an outside power.īostrom's version posits a "post-human" civilisation, but it might just as well be someone barely smarter than us.įor that matter, there are plenty of ways of positing simulation that does not require intelligence at all - computation is naturally everywhere, so if the "real" universe is infinite, and simulation is possible, then it is not unreasonable to consider the possibility that there might be an infinite set of "natural simulations" playing out in interplay between matter and energy in an "outside" world without anyone every doing anything for it.
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