Let's say this world is a test...
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And then we torture the lab rats that don't react correctly with fire for eternity, right?
BONUS QUESTION: What is an omniscient being trying to learn?
And then we torture the lab rats that don't react correctly with fire for eternity, right?
BONUS QUESTION: What is an omniscient being trying to learn?
You know, I work in a hospital and we have a cancer lab. Lab rats are experimented upon but they are not abused or tortured. If you're referring to religious afterlife, I don't think that was the OP's meaning.
I mentioned above that a higher power would be a HIGHER POWER. It is unlikely we would understand their intent. Maybe he's just playing CIVX, and it's very realistic.
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I think it's a two tailed t-test with an alpha of 0.01.
I thought so...I...woah.
You win
I start liking Kafka...
Please feel free...You know, this would have been a great first sentence for a short story
warpus
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What does every single human being do every single day?
Poop
We ingest large amounts of mostly organic matter and convert it to fertilizer. That's pretty much all we are - fertilizer production machines.
And that's gotta be the test - who poops best? Who produces the best fertilizer? Who's stomach & butt are the most efficient?
The poop Gods are watching. Pool efficiently my friends
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Rather than being the test subjects, we humans could be the test material.
Consider: some alien race, having advanced further along the road of genetic engineering, decides to perform a full-scale test. By creating a planet and artificially cooking up all the life that exists on it. End result: us.
Wait a minute, why the hell am I telling you guys?? I need to write this as a sci-fi novel and make money!
Consider: some alien race, having advanced further along the road of genetic engineering, decides to perform a full-scale test. By creating a planet and artificially cooking up all the life that exists on it. End result: us.
Wait a minute, why the hell am I telling you guys?? I need to write this as a sci-fi novel and make money! 
IAM
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IF the world is a test then you make choices based on the information you have at the time you make the decision. So you can not make a choics based on information you don't have.
If the world is a test it should be shredded and burned.
If the world is a test it should be shredded and burned.
Quite frankly - NOTHING! Omniscient means knowing all.
Yes, I do believe in God.
Just need Civ7
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Rather than being the test subjects, we humans could be the test material.
Consider: some alien race, having advanced further along the road of genetic engineering, decides to perform a full-scale test. By creating a planet and artificially cooking up all the life that exists on it. End result: us.
Here.
The test is obviously concrete. It can be solved quite easily by adhering to one of a variety of robust social dogmas controlled by a handful of people who participate in the oligarchy that is most founded religions.
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I actually have no idea. At this point, however, it seems to me that the defining spectrum of humanity lies in the degree to which everyone observes humanity. What is more interesting is that all variants of observation are justified in their own right. To perceive the aspect of humanity holistically, however, would be considered omniscient.
Also, it must be stated that everything perceived by humans is relative to the untenable nature of humanity. Thus, it could be the entropic nature of humanity that could lead to either its coherence or its dissolution.
Ah well, it's probably too abstract to make sense of -_-. We would have to wait and observe the entire course of human events to gain omniscience, but we would all be dead by then...
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I actually have no idea. At this point, however, it seems to me that the defining spectrum of humanity lies in the degree to which everyone observes humanity. What is more interesting is that all variants of observation are justified in their own right. To perceive the aspect of humanity holistically, however, would be considered omniscient.
Also, it must be stated that everything perceived by humans is relative to the untenable nature of humanity. Thus, it could be the entropic nature of humanity that could lead to either its coherence or its dissolution.
Ah well, it's probably too abstract to make sense of -_-. We would have to wait and observe the entire course of human events to gain omniscience, but we would all be dead by then...
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BasketCase
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Okay, somebody seriously does not know their classic literature.
According to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, human beings aren't a natural part of the Earth. They're cast-offs from the planet Golgaphrincham who crash-landed on Earth. So, no. In that book, humans aren't an experiment. They're abandoned telephone sanitizers.
According to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, human beings aren't a natural part of the Earth. They're cast-offs from the planet Golgaphrincham who crash-landed on Earth. So, no. In that book, humans aren't an experiment. They're abandoned telephone sanitizers.
It's a reference to an old DOS game. First one to guess it earns themselves an undisclosed reward.Just need Civ7
And hair stylists and such.Okay, somebody seriously does not know their classic literature.
According to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, human beings aren't a natural part of the Earth. They're cast-offs from the planet Golgaphrincham who crash-landed on Earth. So, no. In that book, humans aren't an experiment. They're abandoned telephone sanitizers.
But then, the final message to the Creation
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