Eudaimonist
I believe in life before death!
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Well, I don't think God thinks.
Sure, that's one way to attempt to deal with the problem. It is fraught with problems, however.
I don't even think that God's knowledge is propositional, as ours is. Whereas our knowledge is mediated through our senses, and we have to break it up into propositional attitudes about objects that may be either true or false, God simply knows entire objects by themselves immediately, directly, and all at once, without having to break his knowledge up into propositional attitudes.
It still seems to me that knowledge of this sort is propositional. God knows that "X is true" and "not X is false", just as we do.
Otherwise, what you are talking about is the perceptual level of consciousness that we might expect some animals to have, like the Zen frog, who does not think, but merely waits for a fly or snaps up a fly. Hardly an intelligent mode of being.
And why is that important? God had presumably conceptualized the Ten Commandments. How could God have done this "automatically"? Abstract thought isn't a sense.
eudaimonia,
Mark
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