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I think this view is agnostic at its core but it requires each individual to make a choice between a simulation without an ultimate observer and a simulation wi
by zoogeny 3y ago
I think this view is agnostic at its core but it requires each individual to make a choice between a simulation without an ultimate observer and a simulation with an ultimate observer. It can get even more tricky if you consider the multi-verse and the possibility that all simulatable realities exist simultaneously and completely. That give a new breadth, IMO, to the idea of omnipotence since one may feel compelled to assume that such an ultimate observer is aware of each of those possible universes/realities.
If one makes the choice to believe in a God-like ultimate observer then one is required to confront the nature of their relationship between their own subjective experience and that ultimate observer. One of the consequences that I believe results from contemplating this with respect to multi-verses will be the necessity of rejecting the idea of revelation entirely.
If that is a correct view, then it leaves the would-be believer in a paradoxical (or even absurd) condition. One is driven by the question of their relationship to some ultimate source while never being able to reconcile it.
Of course, if you simply reject the ultimate observer, or even an ultimate source from which everything emanates, then you don't have anything to contemplate at all and any discussion on the matter would appear trivial and frivolous.