I don't mean to complain about what you're thinking about, but to note that you appear to discuss seriously questions about which seriousness is misplaced. For example, your comment on fire extinguishers, while obviously true (that they don't jump off the wall and fight fires themselves, well who ever said they might?) strikes me as utterly off the point I was making, which is that there is nothing to be gained by speculating about whether the fictitious account of something that never existed might have included a spurious observation unrelated to the fiction.
Please bruto.
it was in fact you who brought up the subject of fire extinguishes. I was merely taking it to the next level in metaphor. If there are not enough individuals willing to use the fire extinguishes, the fire will continue until there is nothing left to burn.
In relation to the death star - fire extinguishes are impractical in the situation the empire faced because there were no fail safes. It was a death trap waiting to be sprung.
In relation to this our planet, in this day and age we understand better than ever that it is a finite thing.
On the subject of death traps, it is death itself which gives me all the necessary seriousness I need to be addressing the whole concept of ID seriously.
For example, you mentioned your son and his wanting to know the details about something which derived from fiction. What is the point and why the fascination?
Does it matter? Can playtime not be taken seriously? Does it affect my interaction with others in any negative manner which brings suffering or even mild discomfort to the any of them?
Now way beyond the biblical idea of god there are other ideas which are immeasurably vaster.
One such idea is brought into the world (as physical data) by Tom Campbell. His idea is that Consciousness (as the original ID) began spontaneously - just as some claim evolution created consciousness - except that no biological brain was involved but rather something Tom calls 'the void' and from this Consciousness Later to be the ID) was born.
So the ID is basically a new thing which eventually begins to understand its 'self' and also its capabilities.
As it develops/evolves it becomes more adept at creating simulations real enough for it to explore.
One of those now countless simulations is what we call 'the physical universe'.
Now to the question 'why?' which is simply answered with 'why not?' which is then confused with 'why would any sane ID create this and then go into it to experience it (as us)'?
Therefore no answer which satisfies those asking 'why?' equals 'there is no ID' because if there were then something must be 'amiss'.
And truly there are many who take this kind of reasoning just as seriously as I take mine.
Only...I am real fine with my understanding of this process. ID wants to know things. It knows what it is like to have a beginning. But it does not know what it is like to have some kind of conscious instructor at that beginning telling it what to do, how to do it, what it is, what its purpose is etc...
In human form, ID is able to have that experience.
