I was thinking of something that's sort of like pragmatism in a way. I wondered if human beings could inspire God even when they inspire no one else. Then I got to wondering something else. If human beings can inspire God, maybe they can inspire everything else.
In the past century, the trend in pop culture has been to make things more mentally complex. Computers are made up of complex parts, as is most technology. And we have discovered that a lot of nature is made up of complex chemical elements. We could go on for decades studying this stuff. But will we get sort of tired and worn out from such mental exertion? As we study finance more and more, creating a more complex financial system, there is some talk of reducing its complexity, particularly in the area of taxation. If we do that, will we reduce the complexity of technology and of other scientific discoveries? Can we maintain our knowledge that we have being able to construct computers and chemical compounds without a complex method of understanding them? If we decide we want natural, financial, and physical laws to be simpler for us, will they be? Can we influence that? Did we influence these things to be complex in the first place, and will a simple preference for the simple make these things simpler as well?
Of course most people would say the very idea is ridiculous, and that natural laws are set in stone beyond human influence. But I'm just trying to be open minded here.
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