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> Anything that it would make sense to call "god" Here's the crux: What would make sense to call "god"? What would make sense to call "a higher power"? Perso
by dasil003 5y ago
> Anything that it would make sense to call "god"
Here's the crux: What would make sense to call "god"? What would make sense to call "a higher power"? Personally, if there is any consciousness that exists on a different level than our immediately observable universe perhaps with a radically different relationship to space-time, I believe two things are true: 1) it's nature is likely to be so far beyond our understanding that we don't have the precepts to even begin to reason about it and 2) it definitely makes sense to consider such an entity in those terms regardless of whether it has a particular interest in earth-life or not.
Again, this is the semantic game that we play. It's easy to set up these strawmen based on our inherent anthropocentrism combined with past mythologies created to explain things which science subsequently provided better explanations for. However it is a huge leap to look at that progress and jump to the conclusion that our perspective is the one true lens on reality and that there is nothing beyond the reach of our instruments, logic and models.
- lmm 5y agoIf you say "god" you inherently bring in all the baggage of that anthropocentrism and past mythologies; that is the normal everyday meaning of the word, after all.