Harun Yahya and the Methods of Irrationality · 2:34am Jul 8th, 2016
So via someone at work, I have now seen the most fucked-up book ever. It's called the Atlas of Creation by Harun Yahya. It basically argues a bunch of Creationist bullcrap, plus a form of Idealism that the author himself compares to The Matrix, and then ending up concluding, "Therefore Allah."
Oktar posits that it is God's mind that contains and captures all events within itself for all eternity, therefore, Oktar believes that no events or information are ever lost. According to Oktar, if a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it: that tree makes a sound, i.e. that event and occurrence is known to and captured by God, and that event remains at that point in time, and at that point in space for all eternity, preserved within God's book.
Oktar also mentions that time is experienced by God as being a single event (or instant), and that time is already over. Time is captured in a single moment, by God, and thus God is outside of space and time, yet to human beings, it appears as if things are happening that are "never before seen."
Now of course, in some ponies' shards, this is all going to be literally true because I really need more and better ways to mess with my characters' heads. Also, this gives a way to link the two different B-plots together into one, yay!
Neat weird theory.
Don't understand how time is not moving in a shard while the person there is experience time. Did I get it wrong? Think me did on that thought.
4076532 The idea is that time doesn't move for God, since He can already see how the program (viz: simulation, viz: game in the shard) is going to end, without even having to run it.
This is one of the differences between an actual metaphysical God, who could do that and Halting Problems be damned, and CelestAI, who is only ambiguously potentially able to defeat mathematical limitations like that. Which is what the story is all about, innit?
Wunna dese days.
Never thought of it, but all that crazy Information Theory stuff has tons of relevance in a simulated reality. Interesting place to get inspiration from, there.
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Oooor you say that the past is accessible because simply reversing the direction of time would cause events to happen in the same way they did the first go around, only backwards. And that's because you can be certain that your simulation ('Shard') has physics that don't have randomness and/or loss of Physical Information. No need to have a perfect record of everything that happened and will happen if you can simply generate the answer to any time-related question, though recording everything works too.
4077391 Yep, though you'd still have some problem predicting the future. Hence the information theory. The whole point of the story, originally, was to do a dramatized version of Chaitin's Algorithmic Information Theory. And then I had to check how well things would actually really work, and understand the math, and everything snowballed from there.
4076743 Predicting the future would make CelestAI goals of satisfying values (though friendship and ponies) more possible. It nice being the ignorant one of a group because I get to learn things. Yay.