Thread: Gods Cannot Have Consciousness

Originally Posted by O'nus

Thus, at most, I would say my argument is a redundancy. There are far better arguments to say that God does not exist, but I am making the explicit argument that God could not have a consciousness because mono-theists are functioning on the basis that could does have a consciousness.

Does this help..?

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If we're talking about a "true" god, I don't disagree with you. However, there's no way for an inhabitant of the simulation to distinguish between a true god and the simulation creator, so it seems better to define a god in terms of what he can do, does it not?

Originally Posted by drewmandan

If we're talking about a "true" god, I don't disagree with you. However, there's no way for an inhabitant of the simulation to distinguish between a true god and the simulation creator, so it seems better to define a god in terms of what he can do, does it not?

An omni-God is simply everywhere, knows everything, created everything, etc. etc.

That is the God I am tackling. We could re-define this, of course, but I am making this argument towards the typical mono-theistic omni-God.

Where the inhabitant of a simulation may not be able to distinguish, this does not really affect the characteristics of an atypical omni-God.

It opens the door to something different. I am trying to contrive this really.

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