u/jiyuunosekai

Untouchable primitives

Why did God create light if he did not yet know that he needs to create beings with eyeballs to see the light? God must have had a perfect example of a being like Descartes in his mind capable of seeing light with eyeballs. "Okay I created light... wait what did I need it for? Oh yes, these round things I have no idea what they are for." God could not have started from scratch. For example, could God have created a being with his head being his ass and his ass being his head? If so, then God must have had our current distribution of ass and head in his mind before he decided to flip them. Flipping itself implies that there was already a baseline from which the alternatives deviates. Therefore God could not unflip his own thoughts. Somethings are just irreducible primitives like head and tail; pleasure and pain; conscious and unconscious. What did God hallucinate before he produced light? Can God separate reality from fiction if his imagination is in 4k? If God cannot hallucinate then how can he sympathize with us? We are more alien to God than God is to us. God knows everything, but what is everything if God decides everything? Does knowledge precede God or does God precede knowledge? The concept of God is superfluous if knowledge precedes God and knowledge can be anything what God wants it to be if God precedes knowledge. Ears are eyeballs and lips are noses. An unembodied God must be in a constant state of bewilderment of these... what do you call it again....? It's like inventing a sixth sense or even a seventh.

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u/jiyuunosekai — 7 days ago

The world preceded consciousness

The periodic table did not exist before each element came into existence. What is possible is only possible once it’s actual; before that, it could not have existed, not even as a possibility. The product precedes the blueprint and the blueprint precedes the designer. Humans were like unicorns before humans existed. What really boggles the mind is not that humans exist, but that others exist, for a body could be engineered but nothing can engineer a POV. You never knew what you were going to get and neither did your body that hosts you. Why do I even use grammar? I need new words, not just signifiers, but also new signifieds. What do we need words for? They restrict us from thinking the unthinkable. What if we found aliens capable of speach, not with a broca's area, but with a WTF area. Would they start their alphabet with an A? Of all the fine tuning, we are most lucky for variability, because without it we wouldn't have varations in anything. Everything would be me. "When we reflect on the vast diversity... I think we are driven to conclude" that things vary. Can variability sometimes be sameness? Or is that too much variability?

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u/jiyuunosekai — 8 days ago