I have ran this idea by Bruno, once, where as God is a Boltzmann Brain, popping
out of where ever, like a virtual particle. He didn't like it, needless to say.
The BB would somehow pop with its own false memories, and personality, I have
read. A few internet kooks conjecture that this BB would also encompass all our
minds and the multiverse as well. Mind numbing ain't it? In this email I have
stacked a unicorn, atop a dragon, atop a leprechaun, atop a smurf. This is all
fitting as Bruno hails from Belgium where the cartoonist created the smurfs
years ago.
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From: meekerdb <[email protected]>
To: everything-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jan 18, 2015 7:26 pm
Subject: Re: Digest for [email protected] - 4 updates in 1 topic
On 1/15/2015 6:35 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:01 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]>
wrote:
How would you define "intelligence" for this thing?
Jupiter Brain / Omega Point / Result of post-singularity
intelligence explosion / Platonic mind with access infinite
computing resources / Dyson's sphere powered computer, take your
pick. It's capable enough to run a planet-wide simulation down to
whatever necessary detail it desires, and be able to infer any
being's thoughts on the planet by analyzing its brain activity.
Beyond that I'm not sure how to quantify or define its
intelligence.
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.
Maybe this one is only a mere demi-god then. You can only say it
knows everything about its simulation.
1. Would you consider such a demi-god a theistic god for the
entities within its simulation?
Not necessarily. One of the defining characteristics of the theist God
is that He cares about human behavior (especially when they're nude).
2. Can you rule out that some demi-god somewhere isn't simulating
this planet?
No.
3. Do you think the existence of such a demi-god follows from the
UDA/arithmetical realism?
Probably not. But in any case I'm not a fan of arithmetical realism.
Truth =/= existence.
Brent
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