RE: The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?
April 13, 2014 at 2:15 am
(April 12, 2014 at 9:38 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: How so? Deities are by definition conscious beings. They act and have values. Further, by this logic I could say reality itself is a deity.The idea of God/gods serves many functions in the human psychology. One of these functions is to add meaning to things: why good people get sick and die, for example. This function requires a mind.
But the philosophy of cosmogeny is a little different-- in this case, the God is the "X factor," the magical quantity that by its very nature takes apparent paradoxes or things hard to understand, and resolves them. In short, it places an idea as a brute fact, so that the myriad details we don't understand don't have to be thought of as brute facts.
The former function requires mind-- a purposeful creator with a plan. But the latter purpose only requires a wrapping-together of infinite regression and the conciliation of finity, infinity and zero in one framework. I think the idea of a singularity serves this function at least as well as the idea of a God.
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