From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 00:13:39 MST
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>> I would also need the other revised beliefs that tell me to
>> interpret sensory miracles as the actions of a consiliently existing
>> God, rather than hallucinations or an enclosing simulation.
>
> But wouldn't your criteria mean that God would have to be a being among
> other beings within the framework of what, to be God, would be God's
> creation? I guess you're safe from theism because this looks like a
> clearly impossible hoop to jump through.
Does not follow. God could be the framework, or could be outside the
framework, or whatever it is the theologians insist on. The only
requirement for consilience is that the explanation be consistent.
Physics is consilient with biology, for example, and physics is not a
lifeform among other lifeforms.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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