RE: Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself
August 24, 2017 at 1:42 pm
(August 24, 2017 at 12:43 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(August 24, 2017 at 12:22 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Quick answer: yes, there could be such an entity and yes we could be as beneath it as an ant is to us. There might be any number of things beyond our understanding and imagination. But life is short; don't waste time cowering in fear of what might be. Find out if there really are such things, if you like. But pragmatically, withhold believing in them until there's reason to do so. Certainly don't prostrate yourself in worship of them - even if they exist, worship has to be earned.
^This^
For that matter each uber-being above us could each have an uber-being above it ad infinitum. The fact that an ant defines us as the uber-most, absolute god makes no difference to whether or not there are any.
In a world of hypothetical uber-beings, no one can say which is the omega.
As I said in a prior post, I am not a fan of even the si fi version of a giant Bill Gates, or infinite number of quantum Steve Jobs "programming" us. It would still suffer the problem of infinite regress the old mythological gods suffer from.
If that programmer caused it, then what caused that program, and what cased that program ect ect ect ect.
It makes much more sense that cognition in life is a temporary blip and arises and falls, just like you will never have an infinite hurricane. Not even the one on Jupiter was there forever and even it is expected to dissipate.
There is no infinite regress when you accept on and off, up and down, rise and fall. The cycle can be infinite, but there is no infinite regress as long as you are going from a temporary off, to a temporary on, back to a temporary off. Because you don't have to keep explaining an infinite on with a more complex on.
