If a God "is" narrativity, or at least reveals himself through narrativity, its non-linear, there is no arc of history, facts of the universe can always be recombined to form a different narrative, even the threat of this happening is enough to make it a reality, I guess, and so we are not moving towards a revelation stage, but will just keep necessarily experiencing more and more unexpected and seemingly unlikely outcomes.
To return to the computer analogy you don't like, belief in AI would be belief in a different type of God, the opposite of a trickster God, and would entail a dramatic decrease in complexity. Maybe we don't like the idea of not really having any way of knowing where we are at in the story, so we try and make one up, but that impulse itself is the straw that stirs the drink so to speak.
You could have become a lawyer, then become disillusioned, contemplating the basis of language (for example), instead its the reverse, what happened happened and reinterpretations of one's life are inevitable and only increase optionality for the future, which may be what this system wants. So Its not that you are moving along a 1 dimensional space according to a godlike system logic, but that but rather the experiences of life exist in 2 dimensional space and inherently resist a line of best fit.
So human civ is a Lynch movie, is what I am taking from this
If a God "is" narrativity, or at least reveals himself through narrativity, its non-linear, there is no arc of history, facts of the universe can always be recombined to form a different narrative, even the threat of this happening is enough to make it a reality, I guess, and so we are not moving towards a revelation stage, but will just keep necessarily experiencing more and more unexpected and seemingly unlikely outcomes.
To return to the computer analogy you don't like, belief in AI would be belief in a different type of God, the opposite of a trickster God, and would entail a dramatic decrease in complexity. Maybe we don't like the idea of not really having any way of knowing where we are at in the story, so we try and make one up, but that impulse itself is the straw that stirs the drink so to speak.
You could have become a lawyer, then become disillusioned, contemplating the basis of language (for example), instead its the reverse, what happened happened and reinterpretations of one's life are inevitable and only increase optionality for the future, which may be what this system wants. So Its not that you are moving along a 1 dimensional space according to a godlike system logic, but that but rather the experiences of life exist in 2 dimensional space and inherently resist a line of best fit.
So human civ is a Lynch movie, is what I am taking from this
good writing but your conclusion is precisely why you need the Light of Christ