It is not the first time I thought of that, but I just wanted to put it down in words here. This also touches the subject of God, and the question I have been asked by a friend who claimed himself as changing from catholic to atheist: "If God claims that I have free will, and at the same time he knows my future and whether I am going to heaven to to hell, where is the free will? Doesn't it make it sound illogical? And why should I bother, if it is already known whether I will be saved or not?!".
I used to think about it from time to time later.
I also remember one day at a maths lecture the prof drew a coordinate system, then drew a point, and then he asked "If I draw a line now, the line is infinite, right? But does the fact that it is infinite mean that it will touch the point?", and then he drew the line next to the the point, in the way that it was not touching it. It immediately made me rethink my theory that I had back then: "if the universe is infinite, there must be aliens *somewhere*". As by analogy to the simple picture I just had in front of me, the universe being infinite does not have to imply that it contains anything that I am currently thinking of.
Another funny visualisation illustrating a similar thought goes like this: imagine a world of two dimensional creatures living on a plane. They know only two dimensions: width and length. Then imagine a cone moving through the plane. The creatures will see a circle or an oval, getting bigger and bigger (or smaller and smaller), which finally dissapears. They will not be able to explain what just happened.
What if God is something analogical to us looking at the two dimensional plane form a three dimensional world? What if what he sees is that "plane" of our lives, of the whole world, of the choices of the dynamics, he sees it in one single "moment", snapshot, as the time is also part of that plane. In this way he can "know" what is going to happen with every single soul, but also every being on Earth still has the choice. Well, that's just a hypothesis, and it is not so important whether it could be valid or not, or if God exists or not, but only trying to imagine such concept brings me to the somehow obvious conclusion:
The logic as we know it: the yes and no logic, has been developed together with the development of the human brain. It has developed on planet Earth. So, by evolution it developed in the way that allows us to survive here. It does not have to have anything to do with "how it really is". Our brains are designed to see this logic as the only one that is "logical", that "makes sense". But of course this feels like this to us, because this is how our brains are. Maybe it is logical to have free will and at the same time be doomed to be saved or not, maybe aliens if existed would not be material or visible to us, maybe the time is also a variable which can be manipulated, maybe everything we ever thought of the world and universe is just a very limited and subjective interpretation of it.
I used to think about it from time to time later.
Another funny visualisation illustrating a similar thought goes like this: imagine a world of two dimensional creatures living on a plane. They know only two dimensions: width and length. Then imagine a cone moving through the plane. The creatures will see a circle or an oval, getting bigger and bigger (or smaller and smaller), which finally dissapears. They will not be able to explain what just happened.
What if God is something analogical to us looking at the two dimensional plane form a three dimensional world? What if what he sees is that "plane" of our lives, of the whole world, of the choices of the dynamics, he sees it in one single "moment", snapshot, as the time is also part of that plane. In this way he can "know" what is going to happen with every single soul, but also every being on Earth still has the choice. Well, that's just a hypothesis, and it is not so important whether it could be valid or not, or if God exists or not, but only trying to imagine such concept brings me to the somehow obvious conclusion:
The logic as we know it: the yes and no logic, has been developed together with the development of the human brain. It has developed on planet Earth. So, by evolution it developed in the way that allows us to survive here. It does not have to have anything to do with "how it really is". Our brains are designed to see this logic as the only one that is "logical", that "makes sense". But of course this feels like this to us, because this is how our brains are. Maybe it is logical to have free will and at the same time be doomed to be saved or not, maybe aliens if existed would not be material or visible to us, maybe the time is also a variable which can be manipulated, maybe everything we ever thought of the world and universe is just a very limited and subjective interpretation of it.
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