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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.
Every single fictional work in history was made up by someone.
What an amazing insight.
That essay feels like it should be posted on whatever the Lemmy equivalent of r/im14andthisisdeep would be.
Why post this to a science community?
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.
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?
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.
That’s science!
