I believe we should consider another definition of "God" — Lif3r
The Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe is way beyond my full comprehension, but it's creator made a verbal statement on God that I interpreted essentially as this:
God is everything in existence, including any potential. — Lif3r
What is God?
Magic Sky Dad
Everything in existence — Lif3r
redefining what I see as a current plague of social dogma on our species is important to further understand the difference between the current social dogmatic approach it'self and the nature of the "omnipresence" it references. — Lif3r
...offers nothing testable... — VagabondSpectre
our cognitive minds interact with the universe ("objective reality"), but the universe itself isn't "aware" of these interactions in any cognitive sense (i.e: it's not a thinking thing). — VagabondSpectre
(Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life, p 271 and elaborated in this Closer to Truth interview.)The problem of including the observer in our description of physical reality arises most insistently when it comes to the subject of quantum cosmology - the application of quantum mechanics to the universe as a whole - because, by definition, 'the universe' must include any observers. Andrei Linde has given a deep reason for why observers enter into quantum cosmology in a fundamental way. It has to do with the nature of time. The passage of time is not absolute; it always involves a change of one physical system relative to another, for example, how many times the hands of the clock go around relative to the rotation of the Earth. When it comes to the Universe as a whole, time looses its meaning, for there is nothing else relative to which the universe may be said to change. This 'vanishing' of time for the entire universe becomes very explicit in quantum cosmology, where the time variable simply drops out of the quantum description. It may readily be restored by considering the Universe to be separated into two subsystems: an observer with a clock, and the rest of the Universe. So the observer plays an absolutely crucial role in this respect. Linde expresses it graphically: 'thus we see that without introducing an observer, we have a dead universe, which does not evolve in time', and, 'we are together, the Universe and us. The moment you say the Universe exists without any observers, I cannot make any sense out of that. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of everything that ignores consciousness...in the absence of observers, our universe is dead'.
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