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Consciousness Without Material Form
00:04:05
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| Okay. | |
| Now, God, as a concept, is the idea that there's consciousness without material form, at least in this universe. | |
| Is that fair to say? | |
| Okay. | |
| Now, have you ever had a conversation that does not involve consciousness? | |
| In other words, do you think that I'm a teapot or a soap dish or a bubble or something like that? | |
| Or, I don't know, Bell Dauphin's bathwater or something like that, right? | |
| So you and I having a conversation because we both accept that we have rational consciousness. | |
| We share the same language. | |
| We are having a very productive conversation. | |
| So there's nothing self-contradictory about what we're doing. | |
| And the idea that I would be having a conversation with someone where no physical consciousness was involved would be completely weird, wouldn't it? | |
| Like, can you imagine if I was somehow, like, let's say you were calling from next door, right? | |
| And I'm like, oh, you're next door. | |
| I'm going to come on over. | |
| And it went over and there was just a computer that was turned off and nobody was home. | |
| Like, that would be kind of weird, right? | |
| Like, I'm having a conversation with you with a consciousness, but no one's there. | |
| Like, that would be, I would be like, okay, this is a joke, right? | |
| Because I can't have a conversation that doesn't involve physical human consciousness. | |
| Does that make sense? | |
| Yes, it does. | |
| Okay. | |
| So if people are going to say, oh, no, I'm having a conversation with consciousness for which there is no material form, I'd be like, yeah, that's not a thing. | |
| That's like saying that there's gravity without any mass or there's light without a light source. | |
| Like that, that's just not a thing. | |
| That's just not something that is real. | |
| All consciousness requires material form because consciousness is an effect of the physical and material brain. | |
| And we know that because we never have conversations with any kind of consciousness that we can test that does not have a physical brain as its source. | |
| Does that make sense? | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay. | |
| And then people also say, I'm having conversation with an all-knowing God, right? | |
| Well, that's pretty wild, right? | |
| Because all-knowing, I mean, that's knowing everything past, present, and future, right? | |
| Now, that's very testable. | |
| So if somebody says to me, I'm having a conversation with an all-knowing entity, I'd be like, wow, that's pretty cool. | |
| I had a dream last night. | |
| What was it? | |
| Because God would know, right? | |
| So that's a test. | |
| Somebody says, I have direct access to all knowing consciousness, to an all-knowing, omniscient, all-knowing consciousness. | |
| We're like, oh, I had a dream last night. | |
| What was it? | |
| Now, do they ever give me the right answer? | |
| No. | |
| Well, would that make any sense? | |
| If somebody says, I have access to all-knowing consciousness, say, oh, well, here's a tough question. | |
| Or what was my first birthday cake made from? | |
| Right? | |
| God would know that. | |
| Or what is the price of Bitcoin going to be like tomorrow at 12 p.m. Eastern Standard? | |
| God would know that too, right? | |
| So if somebody says, I have access to omniscience, then you would simply ask them to ask that omniscience to answer a question that that person couldn't possibly know, right? | |
| That's a pretty easy test, right? | |
| And has anyone who claims to have access to omniscience ever been able to answer a question that they couldn't possibly know? | |
| No. | |
| No. | |
| So that's a test, right? | |
| So you have consciousness without material form, which is impossible. | |
| And you have a claim of a direct access to omniscience, which is never proven. | |
| And you have both omniscience, which is knowing everything, and omnipotence, which is all-powerful. | |
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God's Omniscience and Choices
00:02:23
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| Now, the problem is, of course, if God knows everything, past, present, and future, then God can't change anything. | |
| Because if he can change it, he can't know it. | |
| Does that make sense? | |
| Yes. | |
| Like, if I was in prison, I'd know where I'd be tomorrow. | |
| In prison, because I can't change that. | |
| But I'm not in prison, just a mental prison, man. | |
| But I'm not in prison, so I don't know exactly what I'm going to be doing tomorrow, right? | |
| Now, if God knows everything past, present, and future, then God can't change it. | |
| But if God can't change what he's going to do or anyone is going to do, then he's not all-powerful. | |
| So if God knows everything, he can't be all-powerful. | |
| If God is all-powerful, can do and change anything, then he can't know for certain what everything is going to be. | |
| If God says we have free will, like you and I are morally responsible for what we do because we have free will, but God knows exactly what we're going to do, do we have free will? | |
| No. | |
| It's like if a train goes down the tracks from Chicago to Detroit, right? | |
| And there's a train track, right? | |
| Okay. | |
| So the train goes from Chicago to Detroit. | |
| Can it go anywhere else except from Chicago to Detroit or back again? | |
| It's on the train track, right? | |
| It can't go anywhere else, right? | |
| So if I say to the driver of the train, the conductor, no, the conductor is one in the back, the driver of the train, I can't remember the name, there's some technical name. | |
| So if I say that the train is leaving from Chicago and going to Detroit, and I say, it's totally immoral if you end up in Detroit. | |
| You've got to go on this train track, but it's totally immoral. | |
| You're an evil person if you end up in Detroit. | |
| Does that really make any sense? | |
| Doesn't. | |
| No, because God, no choice. | |
| There's a train track, right? | |
| So does it make any sense to morally condemn people who have no choice over what they do because God knows exactly what they're going to do? | |
| I'm sorry? | |
| I'm listening to you. | |
| No, does it make sense to condemn people for that which they do not choose? | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay. | |
| So hang on. | |
| But if God knows everything we're going to do, do we have a choice? | |