OK i know that religious theories from a cartoon may sound silly but?

Question

as i was flippong chanels last night i caught a segment of Ghost in the Shell on CN.. a robot was describing it's beliefs about God. and i found the description to be interresting, to say the least.

numericaly God is Zero. he is a being that by his very nature cannot exist. but must exist for the standard equation of life to work.

so in digital God is Zero.
in Analog Zero is God

by their nature niether of the can exist. but they must exist for Life or Math to work properly.

so what do you all think about this...?

I love family guy.

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yes it is an anime,
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone complex.

I ahve not seen any other episodes of it so i really do not know much about the series.
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Pangel
good answer.

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for the folks telling me to read the bible,

i read it 4 times..it is what turned me Pagan.

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Answer 1

nice analogy
zero on its own has no power...
but when the zero is added to the other numbers those numbers automatically become greater
took me a while to read it over ... but i got there lol

Answer 2

I think the tachikoma was trying to understand the existence of God, not God's importance in life.

While it's all very inciteful, it is just an AI trying to understand the complexities of the human soul and by comparing it with a digital analogy.

Somebody said that zero is a quantity - it is actually a lack of quantity. It's like a hole in the ground, it's not an amount of dirt, it's an absence of dirt.

Someone also said that when zero is added to a number, it automatically becomes greater. Are you implying that by adding 0 to 1 that the 1 automatically becomes greater or that by adding 1 to 0 the 0 becomes greater?

Answer 3

I think the writer has a good imagination :)

There is no proof of any kind that "god" must exist for life (or math) to work properly. In fact, the more we discover about how life and the universe work, the more we find there's no need for a "god" of any kind -- the natural laws do just fine all by themselves and things march along quite smoothly without any gods around. And no, before you ask, there's no need for a god to make the natural laws, either -- we keep finding good reasons why things work the way they do.

Answer 4

Actually I don't think it sounds silly. I saw a cartoon: a man finds a magic lamp, he rubs it, a genie appears and grants him one wish. The man asks, "What is the secret of the Universe?"
A large chalkboard appears. The Genie writes a long mathematical equation. The man asks, "What does it mean?" The genie replies, "You only get one wish".

Other: Take away from the Whole. the Whole still exists.

Answer 5

The absence of a particular thing is not impossible. Absence of anything is a vacuum and that certainly doesn't imply a supreme being in any stretch of the imagination. Life doesn't need supreme beings to work, but does need spaces I guess. Sounds like mumbo jumbo to me.

Answer 6

Veggie tales are a far easier jump to religious theories

Answer 7

its very interesting...you say you saw this on ghost in the shell? Maybe i'll have to watch that one...i believe its an anime right?

Answer 8

that is kinda interesting. can kinda look at it similar to 0! = 1
but all permutation is, is n*(n-1)*(n-2)*...(n-n) so 0*0 = 0 but its set at 1 to make calculations work right.

Answer 9

You may have just solved the mysteries of the universe.

Answer 10

good theory. good film. Then again there's a book that asserts that Jesus was a mushroom. Sorry don't know title.