I mean the "fool unbelievers" thing is stupid but also it's not really unreasonable that if you could speak things into existence and did so for cosmic entertainment or whatever that you would make it at the point that it's actually interesting. Like if I was going to make people I probably wouldn't start with infants, I would start with actual independent ones. Likewise I wouldn't start with an infant universe
But then how do you know he did not create everything 5 seconds ago? Shouldn't be a problem for him to create memories surely. Or maybe he hasn't created anything yet, but he is just thinking about it and we are literally his imagination.
The logical conclusion of this is we can't really know anything including wether or not god is real, which brings us right back to the start, doesn't it?
No, you are completely right, but it's kind of the same with the "we are living in a simulation" thing (there isn't really a functional difference between a God's imagination and a simulation).
A more interesting question to me is not where we came from, but if there is an endgame. Created 5 seconds, 500 million years ago, 'real', or just avatars in a superconsciousness, the question remains- is there a "RIGHT" way to use our agency and experience?
I mean the "fool unbelievers" thing is stupid but also it's not really unreasonable that if you could speak things into existence and did so for cosmic entertainment or whatever that you would make it at the point that it's actually interesting. Like if I was going to make people I probably wouldn't start with infants, I would start with actual independent ones. Likewise I wouldn't start with an infant universe
But then how do you know he did not create everything 5 seconds ago? Shouldn't be a problem for him to create memories surely. Or maybe he hasn't created anything yet, but he is just thinking about it and we are literally his imagination.
The logical conclusion of this is we can't really know anything including wether or not god is real, which brings us right back to the start, doesn't it?
No, you are completely right, but it's kind of the same with the "we are living in a simulation" thing (there isn't really a functional difference between a God's imagination and a simulation).
A more interesting question to me is not where we came from, but if there is an endgame. Created 5 seconds, 500 million years ago, 'real', or just avatars in a superconsciousness, the question remains- is there a "RIGHT" way to use our agency and experience?