The question could be meaningless. Consider this: if I program a simulated world, I can give that world any rules I can think of (that are computable in finite time) and create any objects I want in that world (within the available storage footprint), as well as set it up to report any events or conditions I can think of (again if computable within finite time with the resources available). This pretty much meets the requirements for omniscience and omnipotence over that world, though omnipresence would be more of a technicality arising from the two others (I can detect things anywhere and can affect things anywhere, so it’s like I am present everywhere, just not physically).
So while I could make an arbitrarily large bean in that simulation, I have no physical presence or parameters that such a bean could exceed. So in that way, the question doesn’t mean anything.
I could create an avatar with a set of parameters and then create a bean that exceeds those parameters. But I could also then just change the parameters of the avatar so that it can eat it. Or I could change how eating works. That’s more in line with how those omni-s would work if such a being existed within this reality, so the question has meaning in this case but not useful meaning.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The question could be meaningless. Consider this: if I program a simulated world, I can give that world any rules I can think of (that are computable in finite time) and create any objects I want in that world (within the available storage footprint), as well as set it up to report any events or conditions I can think of (again if computable within finite time with the resources available). This pretty much meets the requirements for omniscience and omnipotence over that world, though omnipresence would be more of a technicality arising from the two others (I can detect things anywhere and can affect things anywhere, so it’s like I am present everywhere, just not physically).
So while I could make an arbitrarily large bean in that simulation, I have no physical presence or parameters that such a bean could exceed. So in that way, the question doesn’t mean anything.
I could create an avatar with a set of parameters and then create a bean that exceeds those parameters. But I could also then just change the parameters of the avatar so that it can eat it. Or I could change how eating works. That’s more in line with how those omni-s would work if such a being existed within this reality, so the question has meaning in this case but not useful meaning.