Posted: Oct 14, 2017 7:58 am
Clive Durdle wrote:
Need an ecological study of gods, where they fit in food chains, are they emergent properties of complex minds
Ah, OK. You want to deploy 'gods' to establish what a 'complex mind' is. Congratulations on creating another tautology, which involves defining one of the two in terms of the other. Useless to anyone but a dyed-in-the-wool filosofeezer. Also, if you want to talk about food chains, you'd better get busy establishing what 'alive' is all about.
Hmm. Food chains. Maybe you're talking about 'food for thought', which is metaphorical, in case you hadn't yet picked up on that.
Clive Durdle wrote:
Need an ecological study of gods, where they fit in food chains, are they emergent properties of complex minds
So far, the only gods you know about are discussed by human beings, so you're back to pondering whether you want to talk about observable stuff, or stuff you can imagine, which can have any properties you like. You have to be able to converse with some critter before you know it has a mind complex enough to concern itself with gods. in that sense, gods are just talked about.