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The Simulation Question: Can the creation be superior to the creator?

In certain aspects, the creation can be vastly superior to the creator, yes. Most of what humans create vastly exceeds human capability. Perhaps creation is a way to indirectly achieve what is unachievable by us, a substitute, an intermediary step towards accomplishment that is beyond us directly. Perhaps this is the motivation of the demiurge behind demiurgia. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/why-god-made-you https://sotiris.substack.com/p/what-is-god https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-emptiness-of-abrahamic-religions We can’t accomplish insane computation speeds, so we instead invest our time in creating computation apparatuses that will end up saving us more aggregate time than it took to develop them. We can’t lift heavy things, so we lift slightly heavy things to build massive cranes that can lift for us much more than we could ever hope to lift unaided. We fail to accurately and timely access our memories when we need them, so we create filing systems and digital storage to retrieve information instantly and on demand. Many manmade creations are better than man: manmade machines are stronger than man. Manmade AI is faster than man. And **manmade gods** **are more influential than man**. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/abrahamism-must-end And **god-made humans are more moral than god**. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-evil-of-abraham How? **If a conscious demiurge exists, it is unbound by human morality**. Not even close. A “god” would be unaccountable, indifferent, petty, vindictive, unethical, tyrannical, narcissistic, and quite merciless. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/holding-god-accountable https://sotiris.substack.com/p/on-our-cosmic-abandonment https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-evil-of-abraham https://sotiris.substack.com/p/no-religion-represents-god https://sotiris.substack.com/p/on-the-morality-of-the-demiurge https://sotiris.substack.com/p/free-will-revisited https://sotiris.substack.com/p/narcissistic-parenting https://sotiris.substack.com/p/deducing-the-absurdity-of-reality Consider: Humans got to the point of sterilising city-dwelling stray animals to spare their young a life of horror, hunger, and brutal, untimely death. It’s an act of mercy, of ‘humanity’. Notice how we use the word ‘humanity’ and not ‘divinity’ to describe mercy and compassion. No, this is not hubris; it is descriptive accuracy. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-emptiness-of-abrahamic-religions

We sterilise and we control reproduction because we understand that it is better not to exist than to be thrust into a short, nightmarish existence for no reason, without good chances of at least thriving, whatever that’s even worth. And that we do for animals. For human children, civilised parents tend to limit themselves to 1-2 kids or none, or to as many as they are certain they can provide well enough for. This is the rationale behind planning your offspring, and not just procreating without limit. Uncivilised human animals, on the other hand, pay no consideration to the well-being of their offspring, so they parent as many children as they physically can, which results in perpetually traumatising cycles of abuse. Yes, parental neglect is child abuse. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/what-you-owe-your-children https://sotiris.substack.com/p/how-to-build-your-childrens-self https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-cycle-of-abuse https://sotiris.substack.com/p/dealing-with-child-abuse-in-the-absence We understand that a life condemned to squalor is a life not worth starting in the first place. This is why we sterilise strays whose offspring have no hope of thriving. This is why we limit the children we we have. It’s being humane. It’s mercy. It’s morality. On the other hand, the creator of this reality has no such moral considerations; not empathy, not compassion. Nothing. “God” obviously holds no responsibility towards its creations. A simple logical deduction proves this. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/holding-god-accountable Morally, god it beneath us. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-source-of-all-evil Why? Because many (not all) humans are capable of much higher morality than the demiurge. We are capable of much more virtue, more **humility in owning our responsibility** towards the lives we bring to this world. We haven’t even touched on the creation of true, conscious artificial intelligence, yet we already debate the ethics of such an undertaking, something that the demiurge of this reality obviously didn’t bother with. Perhaps this is the purpose of our existence: to create higher ideals for a creator bereft of them, or incapable of them unaided by its creations. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/why-god-made-you https://sotiris.substack.com/p/on-morality-part-1 So, yes, the creation can be better than the creator in many ways. In this instance of this reality, the creation holds the capacity to be more moral, more ethical, more virtuous than the creator — demonstrably so. The creation cannot judge or condemn the creator, since the creation cannot exceed the creator’s control of power dynamics. But the creation can possess an opinion. And the creator can do what it pleases. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/who-are-you-to-judge-my-god Perhaps it is this **absolute, lonely power** that renders the creator incapable of morality. But let us be honest here: we are petrified of the creator, which is why we desperately need to attribute to it virtues that are beyond it. This is sacramental Stockholm syndrome: ennobling our divine tyrant to justify our suffering, and thus give our pain meaning. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/god-is-dead-and-we-have-killed-him https://sotiris.substack.com/p/on-virtue https://sotiris.substack.com/p/stockholm-syndrome-explained **Meaning mitigates our fear and anguish; even deluded meaning (especially so).**

*P.S.: I don’t tolerate insufferably obnoxious and perpetually offended feminists. The fact that I use the term “man” to refer to humanity does not translate to male supremacy, except in the minds of feminism-afflicted schizophrenics. If anything, this double meaning of the word “man” (one meaning adult male and the other humanity) takes away from masculinity, and grants greater weight to the feminine, a term whose meaning is special and exclusive. So spare me the female supremacist victimhood privilege nonsense.*