RE: Question from an agnostic
March 28, 2018 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2018 at 4:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Welcome aboard. You'll find that most of the atheists here are agnostics, like yourself.
As to your conjecture..I;d note that it relies on a less than subtle conflation of a programmer with a god. If I made a little simulated world for some little simulated creatures that wouldn't make me anything other than what I am. A human being. The similarity between me and a god..even in that scenario..is superficial at best.
What about the larger context of the conjecture though? The idea that we're living in a simulation, or may be? You'll find that people inevitably refer to ways in which simulations are similar to our universe. Some people take this to be a profound comment on the state of the universe but..to me, it;s almost a no shit statement about the mundanity of simulations. They are, after all..made in our universe, and explicitly for the purposes of simulation.
So, in summary...no, it wouldn't alter my position on the status of my belief in gods at all if we were living in a simulation created by some incredible programmer..even though I don't think we are. It doesn't even have the ass to affect my position on the status of my knowledge. True or not, I'd still be a gnostic atheist.
As to your conjecture..I;d note that it relies on a less than subtle conflation of a programmer with a god. If I made a little simulated world for some little simulated creatures that wouldn't make me anything other than what I am. A human being. The similarity between me and a god..even in that scenario..is superficial at best.
What about the larger context of the conjecture though? The idea that we're living in a simulation, or may be? You'll find that people inevitably refer to ways in which simulations are similar to our universe. Some people take this to be a profound comment on the state of the universe but..to me, it;s almost a no shit statement about the mundanity of simulations. They are, after all..made in our universe, and explicitly for the purposes of simulation.
So, in summary...no, it wouldn't alter my position on the status of my belief in gods at all if we were living in a simulation created by some incredible programmer..even though I don't think we are. It doesn't even have the ass to affect my position on the status of my knowledge. True or not, I'd still be a gnostic atheist.
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