Ok. My position is that the entity you call "God" is so different to my undersatnding of that term, that my answer would be "no".attofishpi wrote:Sure, i'll have a discussion with regards to free will, but first i would like your answer.
Correct me if I've misunderstood, but you're saying that humans (or whatever we evolve into, or some highly intelligent future species, whatever) will become capable of producing technology that can deliver virtual realities indistinguishable from reality and that these will be used because they are more efficient.
I agree such capabilities can be seen as godlike. But, using a fairly traditional monotheistic understanding of the god concept (christian), such godlike powers don't qualify to be called god. Being able to create actual universes from scratch, and being able to be omniscient and omnipotent within them, would be closer. But just mucking round with existing creatures doesn't come close enough for me.
I imagine that we are not that far off from producing images/experiences indistinguishable from reality. That will bring in new dynamics... instead of spell-checkers we'll need reality-checkers...
I also see that you put quotes round "God", so you are not saying an actual god, but a godlike creature/technology. In other words, I don't disagree with you, just that I wouldn't call this ability/technology "god". The other thing in the back of my mind concerns any prediction or forecast... I'm aware of how absurd previous predictions have been, how utterly incapable people have been in the past at guessing about the future, so I take them all with a grain of salt.