Superior Beings: If They Exist, How Would We Know?: Game-Theoretic Implications of Omniscience, Omnipotence, Immortality, and Incomprehensibility

by Steven J. Brams

Book Overview

This book examines theology and the idea of a superior being in the context of game theory. The central question posed in this book is: If there existed a superior being who possessed the supernatural... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387908773
• ISBN13: 9780387908779
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Is there a God? as a Goedel sentence.

A fascinating book. I got a copy when it first came out (I was looking for a replacement today) and have re-read it several times. I hope it's not too much of a spoiler to say that it shows, among other things, that there is no experiment that could distringuish whether or not there is a God without that God's intention to be experimentally verifiable. This has implications to both epistomology and theology that I think have never been properly explored: it means that the question is not just one that has never been settled scientifically, it is one which _cannot_ under any circumstances be settled scientifically.I can only fault it in assuming a bit too much background for the most likely reader -- but certainly not anything that a serious reader cannot overcome.A philosophical must for technically-minded atheists, agnostics, and for believers.