2007-09-11
Prehistory
Last month my daughter and I have visited Archeon. We had a look at the way people lived in the prehistoric age.
"Daddy, why are those people so poor?"
"They didn’t know how to make things."
"Why didn’t anybody tell them?"
"Nobody knew it. It was not yet invented."
"But God could tell them how to do it."
"Yes, that’s something to think about."
"Daddy, why are those people so poor?"
"They didn’t know how to make things."
"Why didn’t anybody tell them?"
"Nobody knew it. It was not yet invented."
"But God could tell them how to do it."
"Yes, that’s something to think about."
# posted by Sander @ 22:13 
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Ok,
Think about the frame problem. The frame problem states that in order to actually do something, you need to know things, in fact, you need to know so many things that all *could* in principle be relevant to the task, that the knowledge base quickly explodes and search-times rocket sky-high even for something as simple as "knowing how to bake an egg".
God probably has a frame-problem. He had to decide what to tell us of all this knowledge that He has, (and since He is all-knowing, this is a heavy job to do). Moreover, since you can only tell so much at a time, He also had to decide what to tell us first. And next. And next. And so on. I think He actually *did* start to tell us everything He knows (a.o how to make tools and so on), but he only got around telling us about, say, iron, several thousands of years later. There was simply so much to tell! Right now he is telling us about quantum computing and the real story about DNA and so on. Just wait and see what He's gonna talk about next week!
Think about the frame problem. The frame problem states that in order to actually do something, you need to know things, in fact, you need to know so many things that all *could* in principle be relevant to the task, that the knowledge base quickly explodes and search-times rocket sky-high even for something as simple as "knowing how to bake an egg".
God probably has a frame-problem. He had to decide what to tell us of all this knowledge that He has, (and since He is all-knowing, this is a heavy job to do). Moreover, since you can only tell so much at a time, He also had to decide what to tell us first. And next. And next. And so on. I think He actually *did* start to tell us everything He knows (a.o how to make tools and so on), but he only got around telling us about, say, iron, several thousands of years later. There was simply so much to tell! Right now he is telling us about quantum computing and the real story about DNA and so on. Just wait and see what He's gonna talk about next week!
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