The Illusion of Time (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Saturday, June 19, 2010, 11:58 (5270 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: All I am pointing out in a very facetious way, is we can know nothing at all about the UI. [...] You cannot make the assumptions you are making. Religion is creeping into your thinking.-I shan't repeat Matt's arguments concerning memory, which to me make perfect sense, but I'd just like to comment on the above. You yourself believe life is the product of a deliberate act of creation. You assume that the creative force has some form of intelligence ... indeed you actually refer to it as a Universal Intelligence. You cannot make the assumptions you are making. If what you call a UI might be without a memory, it might also be without intelligence, and might in fact be nothing but an impersonal, unconscious, unfeeling mass of matter and energy. That is the atheist belief. And so you have no choice, David. Without assumptions, you have to be an agnostic.