From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 23:33:05 MDT
Emlyn wrote:
>
> Godhood implies perfection, and requires all these absolute abilities;
> immortality, omnipotence, omniscience, are good examples.
>
But, does it imply perfection at some exact moment or in process? If we
don't assume that the end of this universe (if those models are as
correct as we think) is the absolute end of any and all sentiences that
came into being in this universe, then it is not so certain that we
cannot be immortal for instance. That we can be killed now and perhaps
for several thousand more years does not imply we will inevitably die.
The "omnis". Suppose those Omega point folks are right for a moment.
That Sentience will be as omniscient as it is possible to be. Beyond
that isan impossibility. Is an omni defined by definition to be
impossible of acheiving a fair standard of anything at all? If it is
utterly impossible than apply the idea to "God" or "gods" makes all such
trivially impossible. But that is a rather pointless game. To a human,
especially a primitive one, the smallest of the Powers would satisfy the
omni criteria. Omni-present? Well, if this eventual Sentience ever
manages to transcend space-time then conceivably (depending on how you
take things like Many Worlds notions) this being can in fact be
omni-present, Alpha and Omega, and so on.
As a matter of fact, a Singularity class sentience or several of them
combining is about the only way I can imagine that something like most
think of as "God" could exist.
- samantha
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