An episode with ontological overtones! Excellent show and excellent feed back.

I find the combination of Euler's "Level 2" joke and Cepheidstar's anthropic principle discussion most intriguing. When considering the concept of God, I've often thought that our existence and relationship to Him isn't any different than the relationship of an avatar in a computer game to the software programmer. The cosmological constants for the game's avatar is the binary code, and, similar to anthropic consequences, if any of the binary digits were changed from a 0 to a 1, it would crash the game. Basically, video games that run properly do so because the 'programmer' has succeeded in creating a virtual anthropic principle!

The 'cosmological argument' states that if all existing things depend on something else for it to exist, then it follows that for the cosmos as a whole to exist it must depend on something external to it as well - therefore there is a God. Again, the game analogy shows the same characteristics - its' existence is contingent on the external reality of the programmer.

So - are we all just avatars in someone's game? Perhaps determinism is accurate after all???

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