यदि आप जीवन का कोई आकर्षक सिमुलेशन तैयार करते हैं... तो आप एक तरह के 'प्रथम कारण' (ब्रिजिंग फर्स्ट कॉज़) बन जाएंगे, और शायद आपके पास उनके जीवन में दखल देने की ताकत भी हो - यहाँ तक कि उनके पूरे अनुभव वाले ब्रह्मांड को मिटाने की भी - लेकिन इससे आप किसी भी सार्थक अर्थ में भगवान नहीं बन जाएंगे। भगवान जीवों से पूरी तरह अलग होते हैं, वरना उनका कोई वजूद ही नहीं है।

If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.

If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.