Midterm Post 4, God's Debris - Chris Lowry

If you were God, what would you want?



You can do ANYTHING. You are omni-freakin-potent. As soon as you think it, it becomes reality. But does it make sense for God to want anything? He would have no emotions or desires.

What then would motivate God?


Humans are driven by all of our animal passions, and a few loftier things like self-actualization and freedom and love. But God would not care about any of those things. None of them would be motivating.

There is only one challenge: The challenge of destroying himself.

He would know the future of his own existence, but would his omnipotence include knowledge of what happens after losing his omnipotence? A God who knew that would indeed have and know everything, and would be unmotivated to do or create anything. But a God who had that nagging question, "What would happen if I cease to exist?" just might be motivated to find out the answer.

Since we exist, it proves that God was motivated to act in some way, i.e. destroy himself.


Now for God's Debris

To summarize, God blew himself up, and we are what's left. Well, what's actually left is the smallest pieces of matter, smaller than anything discovered yet, something we can call God particles. The other thing that was created by God's destruction is probability.

Yep. The idea that anything could happen, given enough time.

Now think about this. If we restarted the universe from scratch with the same conditions, would we eventually exist? Probability dictates that yes, at some point we would. Everything that has occurred would eventually have to occur.
Right now, we are in the midst of connecting the entire world with the internet. No one doubts its desirability;  everyone seems to be born with the instinct to see the world, to build communication systems.

Humanity is developing a sort of global eyesight as more and more of the Earth is connected. Society's intelligence is merging of the web, creating, in effect, a global mind with vastly more knowledge and capabilities than any one person. A decision made by the collective mind can be instantly communicated to the body of society.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

A billion years from now, a visitor from another dimension observing humanity might perceive it to be one large entity with a consciousness and a purpose. In other words, we are the building blocks of God, in the early stages of reassembling.


God is merely discovering the answer to his only question.

And that is God's Debris.


***In all of my posts, I have included large portions of text from the book, and quite a bit of paraphrasing. If you notice any thought or sentence that does not look original, it was taken from God's Debris by Scott Adams, published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. Now hopefully the cops won't be after me.