What is there to trap.attofishpi wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 7:39 amThe omni stuff is used by atheists far more frequently than theists - because it is so easily refuted, hence why I used it (to trap you).Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:44 amI don't see how the brain in a VAT has anything to do with my argument. I don't believe in such a claim.attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:36 am
Ok.
So you are a brain in a VAT and ALL your perception of reality is via an Artificial Intelligence that is interfaced to your brain. The reason you ARE just a brain in a VAT, is because entropy has caused the original reality to be uninhabitable.
So you are in agreement that the Artificial Intelligence is God?
I stated, "The above 'omni-' attributes are assigned by theists to the ontological God."
I have argued the ontological God is impossible to be real.
You confirmed that you agreed to the God as I defined it, and when I explained HOW this God would exist (as an Artificial Intelligence), you are now attempting to rewrite the rules of ontology!!
Theists would assign the omni-stuff to an ontological God.
If they do not assign those omni-attributes, it is still an ontological God.
I have not rewritten any rules of ontology.
The ontological God is an entity than which no greater can be conceived of and it is independent of its creations.
I don't agree with an ontological brain-in-VAT god.
If you claim such an ontological God is artificial intelligence, then such an ontological god must be of perfect or of omni-intelligence than which no greater exists.
Since this has an element of being ontological thus implied of perfection, such a god of the brain-in-VAT cannot be real.
However if you are thinking of artificial intelligence from a human-liked-alien 100 million light years away programming and constructing the brain-in-VAT, then such a god is not ontological because all element herein are empirically possible.
In this case because there is no certainty in the empirical, we have not choice but to assign a token possibility it could exist as real out there.
This token possibility would be like 0.0000000--0001% possibility to be real.
Otherwise the onus on whoever made the claim to produce the empirical evidence for testing to confirm it is real.
One classic case is that of Richard Dawkins who is confined to the empirical scientific world. Thus he had no choice but to assign a token 1/7 possibility God could exists as real but he associated it is as likely for Apollo the Greek God to exists as real which is not probable in his views.
However from the philosophical perspective we argue on the basis of the ontological God which I have demonstrated is impossible to exists at all, thus a non-starter.
I have argued why theists resorted to the idea of God [illusion] is due to the inherent existential crisis within the individual.
It is similar to Hume's claim that causality, i.e. cause and effect is basically psychological of customs, habits and constant conjunction which ultimately is reducible to the existential crisis.