On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:01:36PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > How would you define "intelligence" for this thing? I think of > intelligence as the ability to observe and infer and learn. Of > course the traditional God was not only the creator of everything He > was also a person who knew everything and so could not learn > anything. He simply embodied all information - which might be true > of the physical universe.
Yes - my point being that that contradicts being a person. Not all Gods have to be persons though - Spinoza's God, the one Einstein purportedly believed in, is not a person. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
