I do think the supernatural exists but simply as perceived emergent properties of natual systems. Even small errors (usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and unanticipated consequences. Thus, like the sorcerer's apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. > A computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes programs precisely and accurately. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer's spells. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. > A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells. People create programs to direct processes. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. > We are about to study the idea of a computational process. To me, the supernatural is best described by Harold Abelson in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: I'm an atheist, and don't believe in the supernatural per se. I would also like to mention that, even if meditation is ''not christian'', I now feel that my understanding of it is better now than 8 years ago. I cannot prove this scientifically, but somehow I think that my effort toward zen practice made all of this possible, and the only thing I know is that the next change will be weirder than the last one. Over the years, I discovered how past emotional events subcounsciously influenced my decision making, how much parental roles shaped my romantic views and how much of my personality was invested in my mind and not my body. I started because I wanted to have a crazy experience that would modify my epistemiological understanding of the world. The zendo itself is 'managed' by a monastic. This also became a (much shorter) daily habit, and over the year I attend various retreats (from 1 to 5 days). I started going to a local zendo about 7-8 years ago to do a weekly 1h30 hour meditation (in fact, 3 short bursts of 25min). So I try to live each day with a bit of humor. So why not treat religion as a joke, and humor as sacred? It makes as much sense as any other choice in the matter.
It's a deliberate choice to believe in things one has no evidence for (at best) or knows are false (at worst). Therefore God must be a being capable of creating the universe despite not existing.įaith, to me, is a joke.
Not existing is the greatest possible handicap. I also quite like the ontological argument for atheism:Ĭompleting a task with a bigger handicap is greater (more impressive) than completing it without that handicap. Therefore God is also a woman, her name is Eris, nonsense is the source of salvation, and God is the universe and isn't any singular being. Therefore we tiny conscious bits of the universe have to make our own meaning.Īssigning a singular consciousness to God would be utterly arbitrary and quite silly. There's no inherent meaning given by a bunch of Hydrogen. God seems to have numerous mostly disconnected consciousnesses, but is mostly Hydrogen. Therefore God is must be the entirety of existence.
The universe is, by definition, everything that exists.Įverything is greater than any subset of everything. To me, that means a sort of pandeistic existentialist absurdism.
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