Q&A: Divine Judgment
Divine Judgment
Question
Do you think God thinks or exercises judgment in the way we think? After all, it’s clear that our judgment, beyond being influenced by psychological motives, is ultimately carried out within a brain that operates according to a certain mechanism. If so, the question arises: how exactly does God think?
Answer
I have no idea. I’ll just note that you assume the brain produces intellect/thought, whereas in my view the opposite is more plausible.
Discussion on Answer
Also, if you think about it, artificial intelligence imitates our thought processes extremely well, and even better, so the only obstacle left is to model the human brain, and then you could say that man has already finished his role as the supreme intelligent creature. (This is an idea of Yuval Noah Harari’s, but it sounds pretty logical to me.)
I once thought like you, until I discovered just how much our thinking is influenced by the brain and by psychological processes (most of which we aren’t aware of), and how unlikely it is that the intellect is independent. I tend to believe that the intellect is simply a byproduct of a super-complex system like the human brain.