Motte: the universe was created and is sometimes intervened in by an agentic entity ("god", "simulator"...)

Bailey: the Christian Bible has unique insight into the inner workings of that agentic entity

Two different claims (really, three different claims)

Motte: the universe was created and is sometimes intervened in by an agentic entity ("god", "simulator"...)

Bailey: the Christian Bible has unique insight into the inner workings of that agentic entity

Two different claims (really, three different claims)

https://x.com/jd_pressman/status/1812889834589212974

Spinoza: the universe is itself that agentic entity

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Pantheism identifies the creator with the creation; Spinoza's pantheism denies the creator personality, intention, and consciousness but not agency (i.e. control over outcomes), which we experience as the laws of physics.

Really? Spinozas claims struck me as anti-agentic. A pantheistic force