Understanding objective idealism:(Part 7) The mind of God

Now that we have shown the difference between inner space and outer space we are now going to discuss the mind of God. Under objective idealism Gods mind simulates the universe like a dream environment. Now in (Part 3) we have shown how the universe is a simulation but we did not discuss why it must be in the mind of God and not a computer. Well if we are being simulated by a computer than the universe where the computer is in would also have to be a simulation like ours. Why? Because our world is based on Qubits (quantum world) and so in order for a computer to simulate a world like ours the computer would also be based on Qubits (quantum world) which implies that the computer simulating our world would itself be a simulation and so on and so on so and this cycle would continue in an infinite regress. But what if one of the higher levels was not a world based on Qubits (not a quantum world) but an actual objective material world with mind-independent matter (or Matter not being simulated). Well this solution creates more problems than it solves since for a quantum world like ours with Qubits to be simulated in a mind-independent world (Materialist/Dualist world) all the Qubits in our simulated universe would have to be unpacked into classical bits which requires a computer hard drive larger than what is being simulated which is a computer bigger than the universe itself which would be impossible to build and this leaves us with a better option, the universe is being simulated in a mind.

Since computer simulations either leaves us with computers bigger than universes or an infinite regress of computer simulations the most logical option is our universe being simulated in a mind.  A mind does not require matter to exist and has integrated information and can process information on its own. The physics in a dream would be the same as the physics as a simulated universe since it would come from platonic information processing. In other words we are in the day dream of God. Everything that is or was, began with a dream. Now one could always say that we are still simulated in a computer and that Gods mind really simulates a higher level of reality however this would violate Occam’s razor since it would be unnecessary to add computer simulations if all we need is Gods mind but even if one insisted we are in a computer simulation the universe would still be simulated in a mind anyways since Gods mind simulates everything including the simulations inside computers since the computers themselves are being simulated so the conclusion is inevitable our universe is being simulated in the mind of God.

Now in (Part 3) we mentioned the simulation argument and how it shows that simulated universe outnumber real universes and how its more likely we live in a simulated universe. Now its also true that the more advanced civilization the more simulations it can run. So if we are simulated in a computer its more likely that we are in one of the more advanced civilizations. The most advanced civilization possible would be a type 5 or type 6 simulation. But Gods mind is more advanced than the most advanced civilization which means we can create a strong probability argument. 

The infinite simulation argument 

P1) Simulated universes outnumber real universes

P2) We are more likely in a simulated universe

P3) The more advanced a civilization the more simulations it can run

C1: Therefore we are more likely in one of the most advanced civilizations

P4) God is more advanced than the most advanced civilization 

C2: Therefore we are most likely in Gods mind

Just to put this into perspective which is most likely out of these

a) Existing in the real world in 2017

b) Existing in one of the half dozen simulations of 2020

c) Existing in one of the 10,000,000 simulations of 2040

d) Existing in one of the 20,000,000,000 simulations of 2090

e) Existing in one of the 100,000,000,000,000 simulations of 2100

f) Existing in one of the 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 simulations of 2500

g) Existing in one of the Centillion simulations of 3000

h) Existing in one of the infinite simulations in Gods mind

The most likely (and inevitable because of what was shown before about computer simulations) is option H that we are being simulated in the mind of God. This renders Gods existence as inevitable and making materialism and dualism impossible. Thus the conclusion is impossible to escape we are in Gods mind and our universe is the result of Gods day dreaming meaning that objective idealism must be true.

OK now I’m not saying this is absolute proof for theism or objective idealism but it gives a very strong probability argument for God and objective idealism. The only alternative is solipsism but of course the problem with solipsism is that we cant control our reality so the more logical option is objective idealism and theism. And so everything would exist in the mind of God and we would be the creations of Gods day dream and God is the day dreamer something that would be true in objective idealism. Basically God is a solipsist and everything would depend on his mind and the minds that he creates would all exist within his mind as figments of his imagination. 

 

 

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