gods, theism, selfhood of god, thinking way too hard about things
Suppose that the universe was made by a singular being. Suppose also that this being/god made everything, and isn't strictly focused on Earth.
At the most fundamental level, do you think "God" would have its own name? Would a being that predates conscious thought, predates language, especially human language, have a name for what it understands as "itself" as distinct from "not itself"?
If that god isn't the only one of its kind, like we're just one universe made by many gods just like how our world is full of stories and games and such... then sure. That god would have a name likely given by those around it. Or chosen by itself, if "God" is self-defining like a lot of us are too.
But in the case of "this being is the Ur Anything, the Initial One", then such a being maybe wouldn't self define in the same way, it would even only be able to distinguish its "I" from "not I" relative to its own universal creation. Perhaps not even then.
re: gods, theism, selfhood of god, thinking way too hard about things
@Felthry That was my line of thought by the end. Such a being might not feel the universe is separate to itself, it simply grew more parts of itself.
A god-being without a sense of self creating the universe, would there be a distinction between "a no-self wearing a self-hood universe" and "a no-self that gains self-hood through the universe"...
Wow that sentence just, all over the place there.
re: gods, theism, selfhood of god, thinking way too hard about things
@Taylor I'd wonder if there even would be any meaningful distinction between such a being and their creation
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