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| Lividiom | Dec 18 2005, 08:22 PM Post #1 |
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In order for you to fully understand this, you will need to keep it in a completly hypothetical context. The technical aspect is irrelevant. What makes a being a “God”? Ignoring dictionary definitions, the creation of worlds and life to inhabit them seems to be common traits in most world religions. For intelligent design to be fact, it would require it. Using this as a framework, I suggest that we are Gods. At least, we have the potential. Of all the skilled crafts of our modern world, I direct you to video game development. In comparison to the aforementioned "Godly traits", the similarities are self-supporting. However, there are equally evident differences in "our world" and worlds we create. Reality will refer to the universe credited to the God(s) of most theistic religions and virtual reality will refer to its manufactured counterparts. Reality is a (seemingly) self-supporting system in which the inhabitants are guided by internal commands affected by external forces. Self-Awareness exists to an exent. Virtual reality can be self-supporting to limited extent. Inhabitants are guided by designated commands. Self-Awareness does not exist. Let us assume that in the near future a virtual world is created in which the inhabitants are self-aware (to the same extent as ourselves), the world is only limited by a set of laws (identical to the physics of reality), and direct interaction between a “player character” and a permanent inhabitant is unnecessary. This world would be running constantly in which the inhabitants reacted to their changing enviroments. The designers could view the world and make changes at any time. However, direct interaction would not be integral. |
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| leviathan | Dec 19 2005, 11:23 PM Post #2 |
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After a brief read; I must say that it's a very interesting hypothesis. The designer in the virtual world could shape it in any form he saw fit. This could easily be used by him/her to build structural defences, roads, hospitals etc. which could help the "virtual people." By changing the enviorments, the inhabitants could adapt to any climate or enviorment, assuming it was the maximum a normal human can recieve with tempreture and oxygen intake since it follows the rules of "our world." This has clearly showen that anybody, even a simple human being (the person doesn't have to be complex) can have the traits of a "God" If this scenario becomes reality then one day that certain species of people shall all by Gods, in one way our another... |
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