(April 24, 2014 at 7:19 am)Metalogos Wrote: ..if there is a creator being like the one I am positing there is, the creative process will not be limited to the confines of whatever our creative powers are capable of ..
I guess ... if. I always wonder how it is we can reason what is and isn't possible given the possibility of powers beyond our own. A bat has powers beyond our own. A dog's olfactory powers exceed our own by 10's of 1000's of times. It is a good exercise to try to imagine what the world would be like if our perceptual/cognitive powers were different. I just wonder how conclusive our speculation can ever be.
(April 24, 2014 at 7:19 am)Metalogos Wrote: Actually, I rather like the imagination of a creator being setting a universe into motion and having no idea of how it will all turn out.
Back when I making up my own conception of god, I always imagined someone someone ancient who'd seen it all before and who was bored and lonely. What that dude (?) needed, I figured, was a peer not a follower. Not a peer in powers but at least someone willing and able to act autonomously and reason from first principles.
So IF there was a wise ancient dude or dudette god, I agree with you they would value surprises. But I've since decided that imagining such a one is just one more thing we are able to do, it doesn't require the literal existence of such a one for you to have a sense of their presence. It is how (some) novelists channel characters whose words and actions can take the author by surprise.
I'm not invested in selling my point of view to you, by the way. I'm just sharing what I've come to. I make no claims. Hell, I'm feeling my way blindly the same as everyone else. All I know is I get one and only one opportunity to grasp what I can and I don't intend to accept any substitutes. Why would I want anyone else to do that? (I don't.)
