I dunno. I'm glad of the reality of the benefits of being good to one another, and not letting others be awful to you, or others who wish not of it and commit to not, to such an extent themselves.
That speaks powerfully to me that if there is something intelligent out there, it might have given us a world where it could be seen by anything, the something of which happens to include us. All we have to do is do it, reach for more and work to make the consequences less or none, but not defer them as has been the recent madness.
I don’t understand. Can you rephrase?
Humans give the benefit of feedback to each other on their actions. The lack of communication by a god vs the “after death” feedback threat does not obviate the lack of communication.
So, I create universe's full of life and living acting entities all the time. I do so in what may be considered reckless abandon in fact for the denizens of the universes I create. I rarely if ever make any channel by which I could communicate I to the universes I create.
Oftentimes, the reality of the situation is that I wish to see if the parameters of the simulation are such that the denizens of that simulation will eventually hold a behavioral model that solves some problem.
This is common practice, to see if some parameter of a simulation allows emergence of certain behavioral traits. Oftentimes these are traits I myself cant be arsed to describe coherently or vigorously.
With the universe itself, there is always only the text.
But within the universes I wantonly create perhaps as a "bad" god, there is generally some shape within it that can be observed through the impacts on the entities in it that will allow eventual convergence around a solution.
The problems that we see on a broad and social basis allow a philosophical convergence on a model for understanding ethical behavior.
Many things are capable of reaching the convergence point assuming a universe with rules like ours since darwinistic entities will eventually become capable of holding, recording, reading, communicating and testing information, and then the question is just how long before they pick up ethics rather than contining with social darwinism.
I could run this universe a thousand times and I will guarantee I will get bizarre and far flung answers as to what life I get but I am pretty much certain that descent with modification and filtered by natural selection will occur and eventually turn out individuals capable of in-vivo modification with communication and filtered generally with non-catastrophic testing that recognize the differences of implications between those two strategies.
If your goal is generalized yet entirely absurd problem solvers, creating a universe like this one would yield many interesting results.
If there is a god though with such goals, the after death feedback threat is a lie of lying men. There is no available knowledge of after death. Only the knowledge of a universe in which there are real benefits to us for being good to each other. And that should be reason enough to be so good.
I don't believe much about god, but I think that if there is one, the wouldn't make something work well for ourselves AND others, and then judge us negatively for doing that.
