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It seems likely that God would create multiple realities, populated by different sorts of people and/or with different True Religions, to feed a diverse set of people into a shared heaven. So the recursive realities would have a pyramid or lattice structure. If God has limited knowledge of the realities he's created, there could even be cycles.
We have cycled through the realms of mere brilliance at top speed and plunged head-first into the unfathomable depths of recursive genius. It's a trap: like being in orbit, one is trapped in a jump from which one cannot land, on account of constantly missing the ground.
In plain English, my mind is blown. If we go into Godel Escher Bach territory I might have a lot of trouble following. Really, when I wrote my request, I was expecting something a lot more mundane. Kind of like the society in 1984. With my apologies to fellow Muslims everywhere, you'd be amazed how much the Qur'an sounds like a lot of propaganda posters glued together once you replace "Allah" with "Big Brother" and "Lord" with "Leader". I suppose we could combine "hands-off totalitarian dictatorship" (paradoxical, I know) with "recursive realities", couldn't we?