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In the "Is There a Creator" episode of Through
the Wormhole, there seems to be a consensus that, yes there is, but of what form and
genesis? One that intrigues me, from a philosophical pov, is that
God is a computer geek genius. As an erstwhile Sim-City enthusiast, from the days
when it ran in DOS, I readily
accepted creator Will Wright as an exemplar. But, the
computer analogy took me to a troubling place; an epiphanal
moment where something I accepted, albeit somewhat nebulously, or
absentmindedly, became starkly real. God the computer geek
can push a button and print the spreadsheet of my life, in the
most minute detail, during my last heartbeat. Depending on
the result, and with unyielding and impersonal adherence to the
program, a disposition will be made. Case closed. Holy shit.
Aside: I always
felt that public officials should be made to play Sim City until they
successfully created a working city the size of the area they
represented. In that manner, our lawmakers would at least have
some exposure to the role taxation, immigration, crime and
infrastructure play, and none of them could possibly remain a
Democrat (as we know them today). Those who did would be exposed
as having an agenda not in the public interest, and be sent to the
electric chair.
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