(August 24, 2018 at 8:24 am)Khemikal Wrote: (totally off topic, but the speed of a signal over cosmic distance is one of the more amusing arguments against omniscience, too.)
Also an argument against the idea of brains being somehow controlled or guided remotely by a soul or a god, whether that's Drich's ludicrous idea of the brain as an antennae for a soul or religionists thanking their god for enabling them to knock a ball into a net. You come across real-world consequences of this in the field of artificial intelligence when people assume that you can do the processing on a nearby PC rather than in the small on-board processor in the robot and thus bypass power and performance constraints. What happens is that you get latency. Not so important if you are cutting the wires of a bomb but particularly important if your robot is walking and trying to maintain balance.
So it's quite important to ask how far away Mr God is. If the religionists then start talking about their god being in another dimension then this means that they believe in a flat god. If they instead say that their god is everywhere then how come we can't detect it?
