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by wruza 549 days ago
I think BB is bigger than God. God still has specific ways, while BB can simulate all experiences given infinite time, in parallel. So the universe where God exists and he will burn us in hell for atheism and mastrubation is just a tiny subset of what BBs can do. Cause if BBs are possible, they can do things a human cannot imagine about any God. Imagine a cubic meter randomly enumerating all quantum states within it, forever, ignoring consciousless ones.
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ndsipa_pomu 549 days ago
Well, a BB may well be bigger than our conception/imagining of God(s), but there's a fundamental difference - BBs are constrained by physics etc whereas God(s) are supernatural and not constrained by physics.
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wruza 549 days ago
That’s an interesting idea I’m not sure I agree with, it’s hard to formulate why, but I’ll try.

God itself can be supernatural, but feels like it can only affect a limited part of any universe due to the limitations in observer’s mind. If we could expand BB size indefinitely up to the size where it stays coherent (light milliseconds?) then that would basically cover everything that a consciousness itself could experience. This makes God infiniteness sort of redundant and unclear why it would be needed to generate a universe.

This echoes with my vague idea that hypothetical FGH-sized beings are indistinguishable from God(s) whose infinite part could actually create more issues than it might solve.

Iow, we have to define some Continuum of reality for God of omega+ size to operate on, not to mention Proper Class sized God. Our ancestors really overkilled this idea, but little did they know. So maybe we should take its infiniteness as “anything imaginable by an arbitrarily-sized BB” rather than its naive infinite meaning.

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ndsipa_pomu 548 days ago
I'm thinking that there's a difference between God(s) and the conception of God(s). Any BB will be limited by e.g. speed of light which will limit how big they can get and still have coherent thoughts. I suppose we could get a super-massive Borg type of BB collective, but they're still limited by location/speed etc. God(s) would presumably not be bound by such limitations. (Not that I happen to believe in God(s)).
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