Creators Paradigm Through the course of philosophical evolution many philosophers have questioned the existence of god and what god would be perceived as. Can the existence of god be proven? If so, can a valid meaning of what god is be derived? By forming a philosophical paradigm and building upon it through the ideas of known philosophers Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, and David Hume, we can perhaps gain a view on the existence and meaning of creation. Take the following simulation of the creator’s paradigm. Humans, who pride ourselves in our technological achievements, configure a computer application capable of artificial intelligence. Principle rules, such as the perceived laws of physics, are configured into the simulations’ parameters. A self-supporting, infinitely-evolving, virtual environment is then programmed to allow replication in the same way evolutionary nature operates. The artificial intelligence then forms societies and multiple personalities, each of these personalities representing a single individual. By allowing this simulation to run it is perceivable that the virtual environment would form an alignment with our own perceived environment. Millions of computer processes analyzing and questioning the same philosophical questions we ask; what is life, life’s purpose, and who created their universe. This simulation can be used as the bases of reference to the creators’ paradigm. With Descartes absolute proofs, and Hume’s view of complexity and Thomas Aquinas’ reconstructed cosmological argument, we can exemplify the creator’s paradigm. By questioning the existence of a creator, or creation, we become set in an indefinite struggle in which nothing can ever reach the ultimate truth. St. Thomas Aquinas in his philosophy studied how motion is perceived in the world, and who started it. He concluded that there had to be an unmoved mover who started this reaction. In the relationship to the creators’ paradigm we, humans, would have been perceived as God from the simulation, we were the first to begin the perception of the computer analysis of motion. However, we ourselves must have been set into motion by a force from something. We are the creations of an already moving reality, thus infinitely there can be no unmoved mover; motion has simply always existed, and stillness or nothingness could never have existed. The relationship with the Aquinas’ four other arguments and the creators’ paradigm is seen as follows. Causation of existence is the simulated environment acts in the same respect as motion. The first cause and effect chain was begun by us, its designers; we become the cause and effect of the simulations reality. Contingent and necessary objects are seen as the environment created in the simulation. To allow the simulation to infinitely evolve we programmed it to be self-sufficient. Intelligent design is the ability we hold to create the artificial intelligence and the environment or reality of the simulation. Degrees and perfection are the innate ideals given to the artificial intelligence to continue to strive for the highest degrees of perfection. By doing so it is perceivable that because we, the simulations’ creators, are seen as perfection. The simulation would strive to become us, in essence become the creators of their own simulation, hence adding to the creation paradigm. Creation is an on going existence of creations becoming creators making creations who become creators in an infinite paradigm which precedes a beginning and an ending. Descartés provided the only absolute truth that we can conclude, the truth that we have the ability to doubt everything. Therefore with the ability to doubt we can perceive that we, our own thoughts, exist. In this absolute truth we can not allow ourselves to perceive that anything else can exist. What we see and since are only our thoughts creating them. In the since of the computer simulation the computer is only perceiving the environment we created, although its perceived environment does not exists in our reality it becomes a reality to the artificial intelligence. Hence everything the computer perceives as real is actually not real; the only absolute is the intelligence that is able to perceive its environment. By reflecting on the creation paradigm it shows that the existence of creation has always existed. Creation is an infinite replication of multiple realities each creating another in an infinitely unset time span. Therefore the existence of god or a creator is true; however the creator perceives a reality which parallels our own; and has no direct interaction with our perceived reality. Existence in our perceived reality should not be focused on the existence of a creator, but focused on the fact we are the creators. Works Consulted: Gaarder, Jostein - Sophie’s World, (Berkley, Mar 1996) “RENE DESCARTES” [web site] cited: 29 Jan 2002 Weiss, Patricia “St. Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways” [web site] cited: 29 Jan 2002 “Philosophical Guide” [web site] cited: 29 Jan 2002 Webmasters:
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