Within the context of my philosophy, I’ve begun to think of God as a more abstract omniscient agent rather than a deity; i.e., an entity with full unfettered knowledge of the universe, without any additional connotations.

There are some interesting attributes you can then ascribe to Him: for one, if the universe is truly deterministic on the subatomic level, it is only to Him that there would be any difference. The rest of us have incomplete knowledge of the world on this scale (even discounting the immense, effectively infinite, number of possibilities, there are problems such as the Uncertainty Principle to contend with) and will not be able to perceive the underlying determinism of the universe as it unfolds if the universe is in fact deterministic. (I call this effective nondeterminism). But an omniscient agent would have complete knowledge of the universe and would in fact be able to predict its course were it deterministic.

Another interesting tidbit relates to perception: as I argued in my last post, our own personal universes are colored by our perception. We may be able to reason that the objective universe is not in fact like that, but our senses will always tell us otherwise. One can think of it as performing astronomical study while there is dirt on the telescope lens.

Omniscience precludes such a filter. An omniscient agent does not rely on access to a particular “view” of the universe; the knowledge is direct, complete, and unaltered. Thus an omniscient agent can be used as a mechanism of exploring the objective side of the universe in the objective/subjective duality.