Magic man
File name: magicman paradox
Time created:11:37:38 AM & Date: 08/17/09
Awarepaths with magical abilities skills etc the problems encountered
That consciousnesses can be made where people can actually experience having magical abilities or other super abilities that are not capable to have in reality. Epistemologies in an experience machine can be illogical etc.
Can god make a rock so heavy so heavy that he can not pick it up. This idea an be applied to any idea. If you can do anything can you do something that you can not do?
I can do anything I want. Its not that I am all powerful its just that I have the ability to do what ever I want. If I want the sun to stop in the sky all of a sudden it does. It stops for as long as I wish it to and if I forget to make it move again nothing really bad happens, like it over heating one part of the earth or freezing the part that is not getting the sun light. If I want that to happen I have to desire it and then will it. It is a good thing that I have to make a deliberate choice to change the way things are because if all my desires came true I would be going crazy with my environment changing with the whims of my emotions rather than my rational self. I am actually a good person. You know why I am a good person it is because I willed my self to be a good person and for as long as that command is in place I will be a good person at least when it comes to my magic use.
You might ask how two competing magical wishes can exist with out being contradictory? Let me give you an example. For instance, how can the first wish that of only being able to do good magic and then wishing many people to be killed be actually accomplished? Killing people is a bad thing that counters the other wish of only doing good things.
I really like creating logical impossibilities such as a square circle. One version of a square circle is every point on the perimeter is equal distance from its center point just like a circle. And it has only four straight equal length lines that make up the perimeter -- like a square.
So what would you do if you had my abilities? Believe it or not, having constraints on your life is easier than not having them. I make mistakes all the time. The only way that I keep from screwing everything up really bad is by my good wishes. But even good wishes can have bad results. I once took away peoples ability to feel pain and fear. The result was not a pretty sight. Luckily I have the ability to undo the wishes that go wrong.
You might think that having these abilities makes my life easy. This is not true! My previous wishes are always catching up with me so to speak. Once a wish is willed it travels through the universe kind of like light. It takes a while for it to happen or to effect all the objects in the universe. Unless you will it to be instantaneous. Then cause and effect can be slow through the universe it eventually gets back to you.
How did I get these abilities? I do not know. I do not remember when I first existed or had these skills but I know that there was a time when I did not exist. I am not a god. I am not all knowing, though I have wished for greater knowledge which has usually come in the form of common sense from all my magic mistakes.
I am not sure if I can die or not so I have put wishes into action that protect my body. And wishes of if I die I will be recreated with the same consciousness I had before.
Let me tell you some of the things that I have done with my magic.
See also:
High school, The landing, The murderer, The travelers, Adam, Just lion, Keeper Joe, Magic man, Max Joy, Mike and Spike, Mortalnot, My name does not matter, Oh God, Sayings, The extend your life company, The farmers, The wall, Tim's time travels, Ty, You have been convicted,