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I am watching the 'The Atheism Tapes' which I find a great source of interesting conversations. During one of the last conversations in the additional tapes I had a few interesting idea's.

I was asking myself: 'What does it add to bring in explanations that do not do anything'. An example to explain it better: We could say that we are actually some sort of beings in a dimension other than this playing a game called life. There is no way to prove it as the rules of life dictate that you can not know you are actually playing a game: this would ruin the experience. On the other hand, it also can not be disproven. In other words, we can not say anything about it.

Alot of people have similar thoughts about it (religion and that kind of thing) and hold on to those thoughts with great emotion.

It came to me that these types of idea's, adding something to the picture that is not needed to explain anything, do infact have some value. They give meaning. I must say this is a different type of meaning than the meaning of my own life. They give meaning or purpose to that which exist. In my personal case, not believing in this kind of thing gave me (in a sense) more meaning or purpose in my daily live. I might confuse this however with an urge to do something as time runs out.

Anyway, to get back to the point, this idea about things that do not add anything really necessary to the picture. Consider the following string of thoughts. We (as human beings) are so focussed on the past. Let's look at the Atheists view on God, the question that pops up almost instantly is this one: "But then who created God?". This question then can be iterated into infinity, not solving everything. Instead of looking back, let us look forward. We as humans are a race that is changing (or evolving), technology brings us further and further. It is not hard to image that at some point in the future we can create intelligence. Let us say that we could make (I am keeping it simple) a computer program in which real intelligence is allowed to evolve. That intelligence as it matures will at some point be in the stage we are in now. What will we do?

One of my guesses is that we still have not found an answer to one of the fundamental questions: Is our universe created or is it just here? Would we then keep that computer program running to see if they would find a way to find they creator (us)? If they eventually did find us, we would have a way to check if we have a creator. On the other hand, the barier between them (within the computer program) and us, might (or maybe is) unbreachable. Would we then go on and tell them, or would we wait and see to what point they evolve? Would we tell them how it works when they reach a point where they are developing their own computer program?

Anyway, for me personal, this insight gave me an easier way to handle these types of questions. It is easier to understand human beings then some sort of imaginary being that can be my creator.

Damn, life is so freaking fascinating!