(May 5, 2016 at 6:20 am)robvalue Wrote: That's a good metaphor!
I want to know what stops me being a God, if I create an artificial reality (say a computer program) that manifests somehow and has self-aware elements.
I created it. I set all the rules. I can alter it however I want (all powerful). I can read off any information I want about it (all knowing). What more do I need? I could even transfer parts of the self aware program to other areas of the program (after lives).
Notice how I can be super powerful with regard to that reality, but it doesn't follow that I have the same power in my own reality. And the fact that I made a reality doesn't mean I made every reality. But from their point of view, I'm "God" just as much as whatever runs our reality (if anything) is God. People never seem to think about what reality God is in, and where that came from. If they did, they'd realise what a non-answer it is. Why is it always our reality, then God, then nothing? Why exactly 2 layers?
Because it hurts the brain to think of an infinite regress?
