RE: Godly Motivations
October 22, 2019 at 10:53 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2019 at 10:54 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(October 22, 2019 at 10:19 pm)mordant Wrote: Actually, it does. One can experience some things hundreds of times before all the novelty is gone, but it will eventually be gone, due to hedonic tone and simple familiarity.
If god is without limits then there's literally nothing new for him to experience. He encompasses all possible knowledge and experience.
This really gets at the incoherence of god concepts. A god is not anything but a very powerful denizen of the natural world if it is not ominipotent and omnipresent and so forth. Yet if he is those things he becomes a logical self-contradiction. He cannot be omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent and also experience love, desire, disappointment, jealousy, hatred, etc ... all of which are ascribed to the gods at some point or other.
For us humans, experiencing something hundreds of times in quick succession perhaps does drain the novelty. Luckily for us, the memory of the experience begins to fade not only in the absence of the direct experience but also in the attempt to recollect it. In other words, you might get tired of pizza after eating it for a month straight, but wait a couple weeks and you'll be back to wanting to experience the pizza again.
That may not apply to God if we assume His memory doesn't fade. In such a case I would simply argue that the memory of an experience is not a replacement for the experience itself; as such there will always be incentive to have the experience. The God without limits things seems like a caricature to me. I'm not even sure I understand what you mean by encompassing all experience, or how something like omnipotence inhibits the experience of love.