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ZeroFries t1_irjfgaq wrote

Well, a God's eye-view is still necessarily possible. Just because your mind wants a single, stable version of events doesn't mean it's a necessary condition for God's understanding.

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programmermama t1_irjy6iv wrote

A god’s eye view is impossible pretty much by definition. Where would the information that contains this view reside?

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Drachefly t1_irl5mhi wrote

Outside the system, obviously. And that makes the claim trivial. Even in Newtonian mechanics you couldn't see the whole universe at once, let alone to perfect precision. But if you're outside the system looking at some accessible representation of it, then it doesn't matter whether it's quantum or classical - a god's eye view is possible. I've done simulations of (simple) quantum systems and it was totally possible for me to see all outcomes from an event that would normally cause decoherence and make coherent superposition impossible. That we can't do that for the universe is just a matter of our being in it.

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ZeroFries t1_irx1li1 wrote

Why would it be impossible? It resides in itself, the same as any view. All the information of the universe must be unified on some level (to interact and have causal influence on the rest). A god's eye view would be this unified whole (all information). I assume you're thinking, there is a universe, and then God is something "looking at it" and must then represent that information in a separate mind, but really, the universe *is* the mind of God, they're not separate.

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