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Belief in god comes from a lack of understanding about the world.
Consciousness
Consciousness is the illusion of being something separate from your brain. We are not a separate thing. We are the brain, and that includes a model of itself.
Intelligence
Intelligence is a physical process of change that occurs in matter over time. We know how to create intelligence. Read books such as theoretical foundations of artificial general intelligence to better understand this.
Why we can't use Intelligence to explain the origin of time and matter
There was a long time in human history where weather was not understood. This was explained by gods such as The Rain god, and the Thunder God. We now have a detailed understanding of how weather operates and no longer have a need for these gods to explain things.
The same is true for intelligence, consciousness, and life. Though most haven't read much of the scientific literature so they still hold onto supernatural explanations.
Once you understand intelligence. That it is nothing magical, but a process of mater changing over the dimension of time, to better model it's environment. Then you understand that it requires time and matter.
You can not use it to explain time and matter, unless you have a fuzzy unclear definition of what it is. For example, we know what weather is. For ancients who thought weather was something magical, they could have used it to explain the creation of the reality. That reality formed out of a storm cloud.
You can't use a well understood physical phenomenon to explain the origins of physics and time.
Consciousness
Consciousness is the illusion of being something separate from your brain. We are not a separate thing. We are the brain, and that includes a model of itself.
Intelligence
Intelligence is a physical process of change that occurs in matter over time. We know how to create intelligence. Read books such as theoretical foundations of artificial general intelligence to better understand this.
Why we can't use Intelligence to explain the origin of time and matter
There was a long time in human history where weather was not understood. This was explained by gods such as The Rain god, and the Thunder God. We now have a detailed understanding of how weather operates and no longer have a need for these gods to explain things.
The same is true for intelligence, consciousness, and life. Though most haven't read much of the scientific literature so they still hold onto supernatural explanations.
Once you understand intelligence. That it is nothing magical, but a process of mater changing over the dimension of time, to better model it's environment. Then you understand that it requires time and matter.
You can not use it to explain time and matter, unless you have a fuzzy unclear definition of what it is. For example, we know what weather is. For ancients who thought weather was something magical, they could have used it to explain the creation of the reality. That reality formed out of a storm cloud.
You can't use a well understood physical phenomenon to explain the origins of physics and time.
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