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MugaSofer comments on Open Thread, December 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 December 2012 11:22:31PM 1 point [-]

Also, supposing that God created the world 6000 years ago or whenever and added a detailed past for artistic verisimilitude (a kinder explanation than the idea that the deep past is a way of tempting people into lack of faith), what would the difference be between God imagining the past in such detail and the past actually having happened?

Comment author: MugaSofer 10 January 2013 01:22:31PM -2 points [-]

That would depend on whether God's thoughts contain conscious beings, wouldn't it?