What is God? My take

What is God? My take

I think human beings are at the top of the pyramid very largely because of persistence, which comes through working hard at something though logic says that it is just impossible. This form of self delusion we prefer to call hope or faith or believing in oneself taken to the extreme IMHO is what birthed religion, which crystallized in the form of God. Subscribing to the concept of a real God then allows the everyday man to invoke a deep conviction in the realizability of his desires, and that conviction drives him to make his dreams real. In that sense, God is a kind of technology, ready for direct application by anyone who chooses to invoke it.

Consider asking another question. What is the Internet? Is it a specification of any framework that can support something like facebook and Google? Is it the collective sum of servers running it? Is it the tcpip stack? Is the Internet still the Internet if the middle layers are swapped, or if it interfaces with other networks by way of SDN? Is it still the internet if it gets fragmented into two or more disjoint networks? Which disjoint fragment will become the internet? Is it still the Internet if I use a quantum network to steam real time content from my brain? Will my brain become part of the Internet? Or is the Internet defined to be the sum of everything accessible from - the Internet?

I think the Internet exists in a real sense because we as a global community has come to a consensus of its existence. And this consensus of its existence is essentially what makes its existence real.

We tend to think of God as a person, so defining God as a non-person becomes somewhat heretic, but wait, what about the Internet when non-human AI interacts as much as human beings on the Internet? Will your brain be as much part of it as the non-human counterpart? Will it be then fair to say that the Internet is both alive and not alive?


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