Is God infinitely complex?

[Alex K]

I'll gladly answer, but allow me a quick clarifying question up front. What's God?

[vorlon13]

Even the metaverse is not infinitely complex.

Even being EXTREMELY generous and assuming 10^1000 particles, and 10^1000 varieties of physical laws, and 10^1000 years of existence, the number of unique states of the metaverse, even assuming a 'universal Planck time' across all universes of 10^-1000 seconds, and even allowing for all permutations and combinations of those particles, laws and intervals, is still, even though an immensely large number, calculable.

And an 'infinite' God, would be instantly* bored with the trifling puff of piffle noted above.








* not even taking 10^-1000 seconds

[Alex K]

Maybe God made the universe quantum randomy to keep it at least a bit interesting.

[Jehanne]

I'll gladly answer, but allow me a quick clarifying question up front. What's God?

Take Craig's definition just to get the "cosmic ball" rolling.

[abaris]

To give one serious answer and to leave it at that, since I really don't think, this warrants discussion.

All the gods imagined at any point in time, most of all, are illogical and entirely based on human traits. That's the best base for calling them human inventions, since a superior being would be above that.

Rakeisha in a different thread, even went so far as attributing god with emotions. Well, that would be worthy of discussion, if I thought for a moment, Raheishha wouldn't go La, La, La, I can't hear you. But here's my point. A superior being, omniscient, omnipotent and eternal - what emotions could such a being possibly have that are even comparable to human emotions? The assumption of such a being looking at humans like an ant colony is already way beyond the narrative. There's a whole universe out there, unimaginable vast and supposedly created by that being. So, what emotions could something like that have when it comes to humans?

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

Maybe God made the universe quantum randomy to keep it at least a bit interesting.

There is no such thing as true randomness...

[I_am_not_mafia]

It's meaningless to ask if something is infinitely complex. It's like asking if something is infinitely red.

Complexity is a measurable state. You cannot measure something that is infinite. There isn't even an exact definition of complexity.

[robvalue]

All the gods I've ever heard of are just super-humans who have become so transparent as to be invisible in every way.

The most plausible scenario to me is "God" is some random being in another reality, running a program. The program has manifested into this reality, most likely without "God" having any clue that has happened.

So "God" would be just another life form. Or the computer, however you want to call it.

The parent reality might be the final reality; it might not.

I mean, "I" am already living in a nested reality, for all practical purposes. I never experience the objective reality directly (assuming there is one), instead I live in a VR simulation created by my brain.

[Alex K]

Maybe God made the universe quantum randomy to keep it at least a bit interesting.

There is no such thing as true randomness...

Where do you get this insight from?

[Alex K]

I'll gladly answer, but allow me a quick clarifying question up front. What's God?

Take Craig's definition just to get the "cosmic ball" rolling.

Could you be so kind to remind me what that one was?