RE: An omniscient god cannot be intelligent
August 25, 2018 at 10:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2018 at 10:27 pm by robvalue.)
I thought I'd address a point brought up about omniscience somewhere else. It was claimed that an omniscient being makes perfect decisions.
This is a reasonable statement, but only once you consider that it must be perfect for some purpose. A decision can't be perfect in all regards, that doesn't make any sense. For example, I might make a decision which is perfect for maximizing my own happiness. That doesn't mean it's perfect for anyone else's happiness, nor for achieving any other goal you could think of.
Even if you include multiple goals, some sort of weighting between them must still be given; and it's presumably impossible to achieve two contradictory goals, even if you're omnipotent.
This is a reasonable statement, but only once you consider that it must be perfect for some purpose. A decision can't be perfect in all regards, that doesn't make any sense. For example, I might make a decision which is perfect for maximizing my own happiness. That doesn't mean it's perfect for anyone else's happiness, nor for achieving any other goal you could think of.
Even if you include multiple goals, some sort of weighting between them must still be given; and it's presumably impossible to achieve two contradictory goals, even if you're omnipotent.
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