ETA: minds can contain gods, magic and any number of wonders that are fundamentally irreconcilable with physical reality
Are not the non-existence of gods and magic empirical truths? I can imagine someone with a map tailored to the universe-as-is would say if they started seeing magic and gods that there was a deeper sense in which the magic was really technology we don’t understand and the gods were life that exceeded our abilities in dimensions where the individual from our world had never seen such strong evidence of any life even tying humans in ability.
But I should think in a universe with beings who exceeded our intelligence by factors of a trillion that magic and gods would be a lot better map of that territory than the map we use in our universe without such beings. Is a dog who believes “slavery is wrong” actually better in some real way in a world like ours (where dogs are not very smart and are domesticated by humans)?
Are not the non-existence of gods and magic empirical truths? I can imagine someone with a map tailored to the universe-as-is would say if they started seeing magic and gods that there was a deeper sense in which the magic was really technology we don’t understand and the gods were life that exceeded our abilities in dimensions where the individual from our world had never seen such strong evidence of any life even tying humans in ability.
But I should think in a universe with beings who exceeded our intelligence by factors of a trillion that magic and gods would be a lot better map of that territory than the map we use in our universe without such beings. Is a dog who believes “slavery is wrong” actually better in some real way in a world like ours (where dogs are not very smart and are domesticated by humans)?