Let's Form A philosophical doctrine!

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This thread is for serious philosophical discussion.
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So, I decided to found my own religion; everyone's doing it right? I have not yet a name (Bayesianism is temporary), and will only decide on one much later. I'll start by saying the central theses of my religion.

1. Reality is not deterministic, in the truest sense. It is probabilistic. The seeming determinism, is just a special case of the probabilistic nature in much the same way, as Newtonian Gravity is a special case of General relativity.
2. Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is fully accepted.
3. For each possible event, there is a probability. The event that our reality eventually takes is based on these probabilities, agile still being deterministic(on a higher level). There exists a/an transfinite/infinite sample space of all combinations of events. Reality flows towards a single event(which is itself composed of simpler events, recursively, until we reach simpleton events.
4. Temporal flow is unidirectional. Reality can only flow forward in time, and never backward.
5. An active agent is an entity, that can influence which event reality flows towards. Which event manifests, can be influenced by these conscious agents. They can effectively alter the probabilities of events; however slight a change it may be.
6. A conscious, sapient, self aware mind, is an active agent.
7. Human minds can function as active agents through our thoughts. Our thoughts apply pressure to reality to increase the probability of the event(s) we think off, and reduces the probability of the alternative events.
8. The magnitude of the probability shift, is determined by the intensity of our thoughts. Probability shift 'Z' varies directly with some function 'f(I)' where 'I' is intensity of our thoughts. 'f' can be multiplicative, polynomial, exponential, factorial, etc. We do not know what kind of function 'f' is.
9. Many minds thinking together produces an effective 'I' 'g(I_1, I_2, ... I_n)'. Once again, the nature of 'g' is unknown.
10. To cause an Absolute shift i.e shift an event to '0' or '1', requires infinite an infinite value for 'I'. Suffice it to say, there is a certain value 't', which is the upper bound for which one can realistically shift Probability upwards to, and a certain value 's' which is the maximum lower bound for which one can realistically shift probability downwards to.
11. 'Z' is an absolute value. It is unsigned, and has only the magnitude of the shift.
12. This religion is TESTABLE. If we find it doesn't work, we'll scrap it.
13. Follow the Way of Bayes.
14. Our 'God' is probability. Our God is not an active agent. It does not think, merely a concept. The single concept which governs this Universe

Whew. I expect, that the variance of 'Z' with 'f(I)', is such that there is diminishing marginal returns on 'Z'. Thus if causing a shift of 0.1 requires 1000 units of 'I', and causing a shift of 0.2 requires 4500 units of 'I', a shift of 0.25 may require 25,000 units of 'I' for example. Thus I expect 'f(x) = O(x^(1 + epsilon))'. This is just my expectation though and can be wrong.



I have designed a suitable test for the religion, and would describe it in the comments soon.


I have a few questions:

1. Am I plagiarising anyone?
2. What suggestions do you have for a name? I'm going with "Bayesianism" as a temporary measure.

Feel free to discuss.

 

I thought this thread was going to be a religion of worshiping one of the mods. Especially tony ''o_o...

 

Lot of big words i didn't understand so i'm going to have to say no.

 

Grass Porridge (Cult)! Grass Porridge (Cult)! Grass Porridge (Cult)!

 

And to be honest these sound more like scientific theories than a religion haha.

 

This religion is too complicated, its more of a sect or society of like minded people.

 

You'd get along with @Nazgand damn well

 

Especially why I put the warning.

 

Because of the long explanation I just read a bit of it,but rather than religion,isn't this a school of thought?

 

Is this a post novel depression?

 

Meh, the universe is just a mathematical equation which is solved when observed. There is no such thing as time per say, it is just a point at which the equation is solved.

 

Praise be, praise be.

 

fucking hell, use I_1, I_2, I_n

underscores, man

 

Philosophical discussions would cut into coffee drinking time so I'm gna have to say no~

 

So a religion with shitty physics + Some if i believe in it hard enough it will come true?

 

LET ME JOIN THE RELIGION OF LOLICON!!! Loli is Justice

 

ugh so many rules. Hail Owl-sama smite the non believer

 

would the extremists become terrorists?

 

We have a God; it's Probability Sama.

 

no.