On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:54 PM, James Propp<jpropp@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
One doesn't need Category Theory in all its mind-bending glory in order to talk about projective limits. I think that all one needs for a projective-limit definition of God is a bunch of axioms that say that for any two beings there's a still greater being who subsumes them.
Huh. That's actually something Joseph Smith wrote down in 1835, as part of "The Book of Abraham": 19 And the Lord said unto me: These two facts do exist, that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the other; there shall be another more intelligent than they; I am the Lord thy God, I am more intelligent than they all. http://scriptures.lds.org/en/abr/3/19#19 "Intelligence" is presumably a reference to part of an 1833 revelation: 26 The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth. http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/93/36#36 -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com