Fiction isn’t real, it’s thought up by someone. So that just mean since I’m real, I wasn’t thought up by anything.
I think, therefore I am … not thought up by anyone else.
Circular… you have to assume you exist in the first place for this to work.
Why post this to a science community?
Pataphysics is a valid scientific discipline.
This is the dumbest argument. I can’t believe I read that article. I lost brain cells reading it.
Your comment made me start to read it because I thought, “nah… it can’t be that bad!” It was worse. I’m sorry you read the whole thing. I stopped.
I’m sorry i drew you in. Ha.
That essay feels like it should be posted on whatever the Lemmy equivalent of r/im14andthisisdeep would be.
Every single fictional work in history was made up by someone.
What an amazing insight.
What kind of horseshit is this?
characters in a fictional show who happen to be atheist are wrong… Because they exist in a show. That’s your argument?
That’s science!
The last few paragraphs betray the author’s intent — and the scale of their misapprehensions.
It’s tautology defined.
I wonder what the author thinks of Christians depicted in fiction. Are they all to be considered heretics for worshipping their god instead of their actual creator, the all-powerful writer?
The writer-as-god concept isn’t original, but the sheer level of egotism it embodies makes me think this author is an aspirational fiction writer trying to break through rather than a deeply deluded person struggling to reconcile TV fiction with their understanding of psychology, philosophy, and theology.
The author’s premise that everyone is a god leads me to believe they have a different religious background than judeo-christian monotheism.