Gigi Young - Simulation Theory (Spiritual Hierarchies vs. God As A Computer)

See also Hillsdale College Online Course In Mathematics and Logic, Laura Kotevska - The Renaissance of Euclid's Elements: in particular, this discussion on the religious value of mathematical thought.

See also Sabine Hossenfelder - The Other Side of Physics. 

The philosophical positions like pantheism and materialism with complexity can kind of merge and then it becomes hard to know what people mean by "the universe is a simulation" or "human reason is a necessary condition for us to be able to say anything meaningful about the world" in so far as when we talk about physical cause and effect we are talking about a kind of mechanism, but is that mechanism only in our descriptions of the world, i.e. is it a logical mechanism, or is it really out there in the shared reality we construct through reasoning about the world.

The "God is a computer" idea then starts to sound (to me) like a description of human reason. See Aristotle's definition of God in Metaphysics Book VII 11.12 in The Works of Aristotle:


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