"I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons."

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If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.

— Damien Broderick