Sure, Gene, but there's other part of the allegory you seem to either be missing or ignoring.
1. In this Allegory, there's at least 3 "gods" (the programmer, the hardware manufacturer, and the IDE developer(s)) - with the strong likelyhood of more (I didnt take into account the chip designers, Hard Drive Manufacturers, RAM manufactueres....etc). These are all seperate entities. Does this mean that "polytheism" is the more "sensible" answer?
2. "Free will" is a fiction that is "concluded" as a result of looking through the "computiverse" from the inside (an example of this: "centrifugal" force; which is merely "centripital" force observe from the perspective of the moving object, or similarly the "coriolis" effect), when one of those "variables" consisting of a collection of single electrical pulses is being "random" or "contrary" to the rest of the variables, that's exactly what I wanted it to do, even if it thinks and other "variables" tell it otherwise.
3. It's just allegory. Maybe it's a good analogy for what you're trying to prove, but it's still not exactly the same. I had lots of tools not of my design, making, knowledge or expertise that was needed to make this program run. Add electricity and a multitude of other "computiverses" out there to the mix, and while I might be "God" of the program, I was merely one conciousness that was able to create something in a limited capacity, which combined with others to create the "grand design".
4. My central point was, and is, is that even IF God existed, looking on the inside of "his creation" means that we'll never be able to know or prove if he/she/it really did it, or if it's a series of actions
not by random chance or actions, but a physical universe that follows a set of mechanical laws that are intrinsic to this state of being. I'll cover this a little more in a second.
Therefore, I don't need to look to God to make my life more fulfilling or give my existence "purpose."
Random actions bring about disorder not order
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Every action brings more disorder to the Universe. See: Second Law of Thermodynamics -> entropy.
2. You mentioned Chaos Theory, I would point to Quantum Mechanics instead - your CRT TV works around the fact that we can't measure or predict the path the electrons take when they are shot out of the the Cathode - thus as far as we know... it's completely random, but it somehow works and creates perfectly ordered "pictures" that our brains can translate.
3. Maybe there's a "big crunch" as the result of gravitational forces slowly and inexorably coalescing in a timeframe far to long for me to comprehend, but I don't know. We can make "predictions," but those are just that until they are verified with observation and measurement...and again we're still within "the box" so to speak.
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Again: I don't know, I'll
never know, and really, niether will you. However, I'm not really stoked on the idea of a wrathful, jealous God who is going to scratch my name from the book of Life because I simply was using the brain he/she/it "gave me" and lived my life as his "omnipotence" intended (see point #2).
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