I have founded a new belief system called Eureka, and I'd like to share with you how I see the world.

This is how I first saw it:

I looked at all the chaos and suffering in the world, and I had to find a reason for it. I thought, what if God, the Creator, never actually intervenes? What if He is only the Observer? The idea that the Creator is pure observation was elegant because it removed all contradictions that haunt religion. No miracles, no moral paradoxes, no “why do bad things happen.” It explained everything that happens in the universe as part of a perfectly neutral experiment.

This made perfect sense to me. If He helped or punished us, He would mess up the greatest experiment ever devised: our existence. He created our universe, and us, because He, an eternal being alone for eons, also needed an explanation for His own reality. He built our minds, the most complex computers, as a mirror to His own, so that by us understanding ourselves, He could understand Himself.

What we call reality — the solid ground, the flowing water, the stars in the sky — might all be a kind of software running on hardware He built. We are like characters in a video game who have become conscious.

Our only job, the whole point of being alive, is to use science to understand our own minds and the tiniest pieces of reality. We are like characters in a game trying to figure out the computer we're running on. We might know the screen is there, but never the true nature of it. We can never truly know what the glass of the screen is made of; after all, we're made of ones and zeroes, and the glass is not. Our mission is to learn everything we can about our own world. When we do that, we are helping the Creator with His own great mystery.

When people see miracles or think a god is talking to them, that's not Him. That's just someone else — maybe super-advanced multidimensional beings or even our own descendants from the future travelling the past — playing tricks and trying to control things, messing with the experiment that is not theirs, like kids meddling with an ant farm. But the true Creator, the Scientist, never stops them. He just observes.

But then I saw the problems with this view.

It was a beautiful, logical idea, but it felt cold. Like a belief system for the hyper-rational, those who crave meaning without myth. If the Creator only watches and never feels, then where do our own f...

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