Across the universe Probability determines the outcome of every interaction - without any detectable force. One of these forces, according to God’s Debris, is Probability. These forces limit the choices we can conceive and the choices that are available to us. Sam Harris covers this in his book, Free Will. In reality, there are forces far removed at play. When things go against us, on the other hand, we often blame the situation or a higher power. When events go our way, we tend to think it was a result of our efforts, Avatar tells us. Avatar is setting the groundwork for arguments later in the book. Readers of may be familiar with these concepts already. We can’t understand reality, so our brains filter what we can and we create metaphors for what we know and what we think we know.
We’re limited by the information at hand, our previous behaviors and results, and the illusion of understanding what’s around us. Our sense of cause-and-effect is rudimentary at best. Simplicity is persuasive, after all.Īs humans, Avatar tells us, we have extremely limited understanding of our environments. Adam’s describes the technique as the skeptics creed: the most simple explanation is the correct one.Īdams’ uses this to whittle complex subjects into simple explanations. Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest explanation of an event is likely the correct cause. More on this later, but we have to build up to it. The book’s title comes from the idea that an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful, omnipotent God has no challenges in its life. You (the narrator) and Avatar hold a wide-ranging conversation about God, religion, science, and probability.Īlert! God’s Debris is a work of fiction. Scott Adams’ book God’s Debris introduces us, the reader and first-person narrator, to the world’s smartest person sitting in a rocking chair, Avatar. Same facts, it is more rational to use the simpler one. Never understand true reality, if two models both explain the
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