Now lets talk about something pretty different - game theory. In game theory the optimum strategy is tit-for-tat: if someone is mean to you, you're mean to them in the subsequent round to punish them. The optimum strategy also includes some degree of forgiveness. Some biologists think that this is the foundation of social behavior - that we interact with those that are consistently nice, punish those who are not... But what I want to explore here is that this tit-for-tat strategy actually only works if you don't know how many rounds there are. That's pretty interesting to me - the game only works if we don't know when it ends. Does that have something to do with why we don't know when we die, otherwise life would breakdown because we wouldn't know how to live?
So, as I see it there are fundamentally two possibilities. Here I will define God as any force of any type, perhaps purposeful and definitely knowing. Either there is a God and he's decided not to tell us what's up or there's not a God and we have to figure it out if we have any shot at it at all. If there were a God, he would have to have a reason not to want to tell us what's up. Perhaps this tit-for-tat idea of social interaction would break down if we knew. I am not sure if we need to be ignorant in order to want to live, but that's certainly another possibility. It seems possible though that the God has created a system for life that only works if we are ignorant.
Of course, the other God problem is that who created God if not God? But that's another whole topic.
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