Google and The Love of God/God of Love

If a piece of information is accessible on Google, this doesn't necessarilly mean that it is known. For instance, people keep on finding odd sights on Google Earth. Even though Google Maps is just a representation of the world, neither Google nor humanity as a whole can say with certainty that they know all of the weird things it contains. So knowledge is different from information in a merely existent form.

Let's say then, that the content of a unit of knowledge is information. But knowledge also has a formal quality, and this is the relationships through which we understand the information. So information, to become known, has to be related to other pieces of information and there can be no such thing as an isolated fact in itself.

For instance, I may see a crop circle pictured on Google Earth, but for me to take note of it and to understand that it to be categorised as awesome relies on a series of other facts pertaining to the nature of crop circles and google maps, which show me that it is an unusual fact.

Now, going by what I've talked about before, the Infinite Being (let's just call it God) would have a complete idea of all possibilities. If this is merely a simulation then it is information and to call it conscious would be wrong.* We must assume then that God understands all possible relations between all information in the universe. If this is true, then God must at once relate to you through the categories of hate and love.

This is contradictory. And as I've said before I do not believe that God would be capable of contradictory thought. All of God's thoughts must be logically necessary and complete. It seems to me then that God must neccessarilly be above both hate and love.

God, if such a being existed, would have a necessary, perfect understanding of hate and love towards any object as finite imperfect categories of Human experience. So although emotion must have a place in the mind of God, it cannot be an infinite quality. Therefore, if there is an infinite God, love cannot have an infinite value.

Of course, God could have been constructed to love. But to do so would be to limit God's computational facilities. A loving God would be incapable of having a complete idea of anything that contradicts the law of love because the complete idea of God would be a perfect simulation indistinguishable from reality.

A loving God would therefore be a finite God, and a finite God would by definition make mistakes. I would even argue that a finite God is even, by definition, mortal. For instance, a loving God may find that itself in a situation where to prevent the creation of a properly infinite God would involve contradicting the law of love. But I'm not so sure on that count.

This is all so theoretical it makes my head hurt. God is fun to think about because it involves imagining a situation where sentient is pushed to its radical extreme. But now I think I want to go think about space ships for a while.