Learner said:
"between us, we're reading two different books, so to speak?"
Cop out! He means the dog of whatever book you ARE reading.
Steve asked:
"You are a single all powerful thinking aware god existing absolutely alone.
You can wink things into existence at your whim. What would you do?"
I don't have enough imagination to create a universe from scratch.
But I have put some thought into (a) What kind of
god I would create?
(b) If I was suddenly promoted to god of THIS universe, What changes/corrections would I make?
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a) If I was creating a god, This is what it would be like:
* She would be immortal, sentient, with free-will.
* She would be almost all-knowing. Would know only as much as she wants to know at any one time.
(Knowing absolutely everything would be boring.)
* She would have the absolute best random number generators possible. And wise enough to delegate most stuff to them.
* She would be able to cerate as much bio or artificial neural network as necessary to make dead-on predictions. (or not, at her discretion)
* She would remember only as much or as little as she wants to remember at any one time. (Remembering everything would be boring.)
* She would be almost all-powerful. Have a complete knowledge and **control** of physics. But NO miracles.
(she would not create the universe. We would use this one. A new universe is beyond **my** ability to imagine)
* She would not be everywhere at once. Experiencing absolutely everything would be repetitious and boring.
But she could create avatars, as many as wanted, to be wherever she wanted to be in the universe.
* She would, with knowledge and control of physics, be able to time-travel.
* She would be wise enough to not screw-up time-travel.
* She would be able to create life. But she would not be dumb enough to give it free will.
* She would be a she for all the wrong reasons (i'm a pig. An immortal would not need a gender).
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b) corrections I would make to THIS universe:
* Well for starters, I'd kick all the preachers to the curb. And anyone who claimed to speak for me.
I'd take The Wheel of the "church" myself. (but I don't actually need worship)
* Give us that "Peace On Earth" he promised.
* End death, Disease, & Hunger.
* Cap human lifespan at 100 years.
* Limit births to one replacement per person.
* Cap human population at ... ?
* Keep my hands off your "Free Will".
* Put an end to the church's extortion / protection racket.
* Put an end to torture in his prison system (hell).
* Free all non-violent prisoners from hell.
* Remove all the church's brainwashed puppets from politics.