Posted on 04/07/2019 4:28:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
The simulated persons users interact with continue to operate within the simulation whether there is a user present or not which isn't really in keeping with the view proponents of a simulated universe espouse.
Including the perception of pain if you hit your hand with a hammer. Be like a Buddhist and transcend it.
I’ll take Thomas Aquinas’ explanation of the existence of God.
There are people who can’t feel pain. They usually experience a lot of injuries and live short lives.
Thing is, Dave, He does know (even the decay of a radioactive particle), and He exists outside of the Creation He spoke into existence, while His Spirit and Son are active inside of it. See how easy that is?
We either can by faith accept that He is and that He has a purpose for each of us, or that we are all random and w/o purpose and therefore worthless.
One path leads to life and pursuit of excellence until we pass from this life into eternity with Him; the other, just a free for all until the darkness arrives, and we wake up in the presence of the LORD GOD Almighty and gulp.
“Choose this day whom you will serve....”
This is a lame argument against God, though one of the most common. It implies that God can't be bothered, that his attention is limited, and physical dimensions are some kind of criterion. Whereas if God is omnipresent, omniscient and infinite, indeed the creator of time, he certainly has all the time in the world to be concerned with a speck of dust. Like you or me!
From our perspective, the universe is all sparks and specks. The indwelling God has no such limitations.
Of course, in the end, this extreme skepticism (everything is a simulation) gets us back to Descartes and the ONLY thing that he was certain of was that he existed. "I think therefore I am." Neil deGrasse Tyson and Elon Musk are just two more examples of what the Bible calls "fools." They are willing to believe anything (including being in a simulation) in order to justify themselves thinking that there is no god that they are accountable to.
What you see as Chaos is merely Complexity that you do not yet understand.
Just one question, does anyone believe that Mario or any other character in our computer simulations actually thinks about what he does and experiences emotions? I don’t think so but I am no programmer.
Do cockroaches feel lonely?
“Do cockroaches feel lonely?”
I have not the foggiest idea.
If we’re a simulation then a reality must exist somewhere that has the technology and computers capable of running the simulation.
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