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Between computer games and the Creator

שו”תBetween computer games and the Creator
asked 1 year ago

Hello Rabbi, good afternoon.
I haven’t read the rabbi’s books, but I did hear your lectures in which you claim that it is more acceptable to believe that there is a Creator in the world because of A, B, and C. I wanted to ask if this is the rabbi’s opinion only in the Creator in general or also in the God of Israel? Because if it is in the God of Israel, then I have a little difficulty with this opinion because intellectuals like Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson are talking these days that there is a 1 in infinity chance that we are not inside a computer game, but if we succeed in creating a perfect game that resembles reality in a few hundred years (already today there are breakthroughs in the continuous rendering of a virtual world automatically and artificial minds that can be implanted in players, etc.) and the computer game we created will also be technologically successful and produce its own game that resembles reality, and so on. The likelihood that we are the first programmers is zero. And according to the Torah, it doesn’t sound likely that God is a programmer or a group of programmers (a group of programmers is like some deities and we know that the Torah denies this). So that’s basically it. I would like to hear the rabbi’s argument regarding these and similar beliefs and at the same time clarify my own belief.


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מיכי Staff answered 1 year ago
The things are detailed in the first stanza of the fifth conversation. It is difficult to extend here. The question of us being part of a computer game is stupid idle chatter and I see no point in relating to it. Who is playing this game? And if we are in a computer game, then what? It is us and it does not change anything. In short, it is nonsense.

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