Eric's reality vs the world of a virus

A Question was raised by Eric reproduced below.

"Dear Mr. Sing

When thinking about the structure of the universe and our laws of physics I think that it is important to remember that our sense of logic is arbitrary.

Hypothetically, let's say that an all powerful god created logic, and all events that followed conform to this logic i.e. 1+1=2 and anything times 0 = 0. What were the rules before logic was created? Before the laws of physics and symetry were decided on? Could an all powerful god have made it different? By definition of an "all powerful god" the answer would have to be yes. What if he could have made air non transparent and allow conscious beings to be able to navigate through the atomosphere just as we do today? What if instead of 6 senses god gave us 10 or 12 or invented a universe where the idea of numbers or Euclidian geometry were null? An all powerful god could have.

Why only 3 spatial dimensions and one of time? Our meager human brains come up with the answer: that is the way it had to be for us to exist. For an all powerful god not bound by the rules of logic or physics, it could have been any way he wanted. We could have had 12 dimensions of space instead of 3. He could have created a world where we could know the differnce between good and evil without ever having to experience evil. He could have made us never have to experience pain to experience pleasure. I think you get the point here.

The only thing that makes sense is that an all powerful got made a random choice using his free will and poof...here we are.

Free will is a random jump out of our programing right? Creative thought has to come from something outside ourselves. When making decisions we take a random jump out of our own genetic programming and experience and open ourselves up to accept an idea that seems to come to us out of nowhere and instantly. Maybe the universe, laws of physics, and symetry are all the result of a random act of god's free will. An electron randomly makes a decision to wind up going through the left slit or the right in the double slit experience. Maybe god did the same thing.

The universe may not have been an accident, but to say that the way we perceive the universe to be is the only way that it could be for us to survive is just not true.

What do you think?

Reply:


(The Mystical Banaras)


Dear Eric,


The statements, you make about God (I prefer to refer to as Super Intelligence to avoid any overtones) indeed has ways and ways that it could have constructed the logic and physical laws and the sensory systems different than we know of and firmly believe that all the other variations that you talk about may exist right where we are.

The point I make is, that, we are “designed and constructed” in way that we see the world in a particular way and we deduce that to be the reality. That we experience the time and space and the curvatures the way we are meant to. And there could, in the same time and space as ourselves, be entities who are equipped to perceive the world totally different than us.

Therefore, I am deducing that the world, in fact, has no specific reality but the way it is perceived by the observer as per the design of its logic, sensibilities and the instrumentation.

I agree that we could have survived in infinite ways and could have been designed some other way. However in all other cases than what we are, our perception of the reality would have been different than what we perceive it as us.

I wonder, if a virus was to write about the reality of the world, what would that be?