I was trying to get at the idea that an omniscient being doesn't have any options from which to choose. It knows the future, so it already knows which what it is going to do in the future, and that's the only thing it CAN do. It cannot choose an action different from that that which it foresaw itself taking. Given a truly omniscient being, it's all foreordained and there's no such thing as free will for anyone if the future is knowable in perfect detail. We all can only do what the omniscient being always knew we would do.
I'm not sure 'being' is the right word for such a thing. It not only can't be intelligent, it would not think at all as we understand the process...it already knows all the 'thoughts' it will ever have, so it never actually 'thinks' them, just remembers them.
I'm not sure 'being' is the right word for such a thing. It not only can't be intelligent, it would not think at all as we understand the process...it already knows all the 'thoughts' it will ever have, so it never actually 'thinks' them, just remembers them.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
