swamidass
(S. Joshua Swamidass)
September 11, 2018, 3:27pm
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jongarvey:
That’s one reason I can’t see how Francis Collins’s idea, expanded by Kathryn Applegate, that God could do all he desired in the world by setting the big-bang and the laws up right in the beginning, could work.
If that “computer” is God, it certainly could. This is the view put forward, for example by Jon Kvanvig.
Patrick
September 11, 2018, 3:49pm
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God is a “computer”. That’s original. That is better than God is a celestial machine. Or the blind watchmaker.
What’s next God is AI?
Patrick
September 11, 2018, 3:52pm
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swamidass:
Not merely a computer .
Yes, all powerful, omnipotent, all knowledgeable, always on, everywhere and nowhere, sort of like Google without any hardware or software.
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PdotdQ
September 11, 2018, 6:34pm
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I agree with this.
swamidass:
However this is not a deterministic system, and some how this does not trouble us. It is far more salient and important than our distant past. I’m not sure why we should be concerned about non deterministism in origins when we are confronted every day with it in society. It seems to be a very selective concern.
This I find harder to agree. I think it is possible that whatever mechanism by which God works His purposes on the Universe are still deterministic at least up to the wavefunction level, or as @dga471 suggested might even be superdeterministic. If not, then I think it does trouble me.
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swamidass
(S. Joshua Swamidass)
September 11, 2018, 8:24pm
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Perhaps it is superdeterministic. I’m just say we shouldnt be concerned of it isn’t.
swamidass
(S. Joshua Swamidass)
Split this topic
September 13, 2018, 1:55am
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A post was merged into an existing topic: Eddie Asks: Does God Govern Evolution?