(July 23, 2015 at 6:27 pm)IATIA Wrote: That is only because you are thinking like a human and not a god.
As to what reality really is, I have no better idea than any other. It could be 'real' or it could just simply seem 'real'. The point, however, is that this 'reality' would be beneath any god and certainly superfluous at best.
A god would have knowledge beyond anything I could even imagine, let alone comprehend. The knowledge of a god would make the comprehension of infinity simple child's play. Why would it be necessary to create these physical attributes of our present existence when a god could do so much more. Even if, as you say, this god just wanted to create some toys to fuck with, would not a real god be able to do this on a scale beyond our present comprehension?
This reality that we perceive is so beneath the powers of a god that I cannot imagine one that would even bother.
Yeah, it's probably moot anyway. Even if such a god existed, to US, it would probably just look like nature. My main philosophical issue, which persists across threads, is that the existence of mind is suspicious to me in a physicalist worldview. It seems to many that there is mind in very few places, and this makes it almost infinitely likely that the universe was created (if it was created) by a non-mental process. However, I see the other side of the coin, too: everything any person has ever known required perception by a mind-- literally 100%, by definition, since that's what "know" means; so it seems to me a reasonable candidate for reality (i.e. a good guess) that the universe could have been created by a mindful entity or quantity.
