On Feb 20, 1:08 am, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z <peterdjo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I > > > > would > > > > like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds > > > > Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is where every quantum state > > > > in > > > > every particle interaction is realized in one parallel world/universe or > > > > another, then there is no need for a god. > > > > Why not? There could an infinite number of the Many Worlds with all > > > kinds of Gods. > > > QM based MWI woildn't suggest that the supernatural occurs in any > > universe. Are you familiar with Tegmark's classification? > > Why would Gods be supernatural?
Why would bachelors be married? > If comp is true, then when we create > AI beings over which we will have power to stop, start, and reprogram > their minds as well as their perceived universes, who will we be to > them other than Gods? But we are natural so they would be wrong. "The Goa'uld are false gods!" -- Stargate, passim. >Computationalism says that we have no way of > knowing that has not happened yet and MWI (and Tegmark's Level 3 > classification) demands that this is inevitable in some universes. > > In a scenario of infinite universes, how can any possibility be said > to be supernatural? There is a supernatural/natual distinction in MWI based multiverses. > Our idea of quantum could simply be the virtual > quantum of the simulation furnished to us by our programmers...who > appear to us as arithmetic Gods because they wish to. > > Craig Appearance =/= reality. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
