Are you defining Odin’s role and behaviour such that he is guaranteed not to actually do anything that impinges on reality beyond creating the laws of physics that we already know? Or is it just that he hasn’t interfered with anything so far, or hasn’t interfered with anything in such a way that anything we can observe is different?
(Edit: I ask because any claims about metaethics that depend on Odin’s existence would seem to require raising him to the level of a causally-active component of the theory rather than an arbitrary and unfalsifiable epiphenomenon.)
I am defining him as being an arbitrary and unfalsifiable epiphenomenon everywhere excepting that he was causally active in the creation of the book that details the ethical lives Odinists ought to live. Basically, he hasn’t interfered with anything in such a way that anything we could ever observe is different, except he wrote a book about it.
It’s clear to me that anyone could choose to reject Odinism, but it’s not clear what arguments other than a strong Occam’s razor could convince a sufficiently reasonable and de-biased (ie genuinely truth-seeking) Odinist to give up their belief.
Are you defining Odin’s role and behaviour such that he is guaranteed not to actually do anything that impinges on reality beyond creating the laws of physics that we already know? Or is it just that he hasn’t interfered with anything so far, or hasn’t interfered with anything in such a way that anything we can observe is different?
(Edit: I ask because any claims about metaethics that depend on Odin’s existence would seem to require raising him to the level of a causally-active component of the theory rather than an arbitrary and unfalsifiable epiphenomenon.)
I am defining him as being an arbitrary and unfalsifiable epiphenomenon everywhere excepting that he was causally active in the creation of the book that details the ethical lives Odinists ought to live. Basically, he hasn’t interfered with anything in such a way that anything we could ever observe is different, except he wrote a book about it.
It’s clear to me that anyone could choose to reject Odinism, but it’s not clear what arguments other than a strong Occam’s razor could convince a sufficiently reasonable and de-biased (ie genuinely truth-seeking) Odinist to give up their belief.