Our brain has the capacity to model what it considers to be real. We experience these models as reality. By convincing someone that God is real and omniscient and omnipotent, you implement a process on their brain that has full read/write access on their personal reality.
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So your position is that abstract entities are less real than say, physical objects?
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Physical objects are encodings that we discover over observable patterns of information. Something real is generating the patterns. This underlying reality may be mathematical in nature, but the mathematical objects we think about construe a purely virtual domain.
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