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Comment author: Alexei_Turchin 09 October 2008 11:30:00AM 0 points [-]

The main question here is -

Can finite state machine have qualia?

Because suffering is qualia. If it is not, it does''t matter. It is easy to write a programm that print "i am suffering" if you press a button.

So, God cannot influence on result of work of final automata. But He can give it qualia, or switch qualia off for it - and nobody would ever mention it.

So, existing of final automat Universe, don''t prove absense of God, because God could change qualia without changing result of work of the automat.