Originally Posted by ggs
the only thing that could make me god is the ability to truly create. that requires absolute, free will. in a deterministic universe where i am just an animal, there is no free will. acts of creation are meaningless. the universe is controlled by an algorithm, my choices are just part of its ongoing state. each state relies on the state of the past. i don't understand this algorithm, but science works to uncover it, and soon we will know how little we can become
my vision of the future involves no imposition of structure among the people, just a future where people have found evidence of the deterministic nature of the universe. as a result, everybody who thinks about the issues of life will come to realize how meaningless it is - and it will not be conjecture, it will be fact. some will rationalize it with bizarre religious logic, others will do their best to ignore it, observing that people lived just fine in the past without letting this worry them, and for others it will devastate them - they know that creation is the only worthwhile thing to live for, and will also know that their creation is false. it's a matter of how many will fall into each catagory