>>3981636The mind is merely an electric storm within our brain, after all. What sets the upper limit of the growth of the mind? The elephant is our largest land animal, the blue whale is our largest sea creature, the California Condor is our largest bird capable of flight, and a genius like Einstein is near the upper limit of intelligence for human beings. Electrical signals are already being explored as the source for cell differentiation within the body. The US military is exploring the use of "thinking caps", a helmet which would run a DC current through the skull to speed up learning rates in recruits. The electric nature of the mind and body has already been established, but what if someone knew how to raise the limits of the mind? Through a perfect breeding program to have the ideal candidate, and then they're raised in the perfect environment, taught the perfect way, fed the perfect diet. And if the limits the external environment imposed on the growth of the mind were artificially raised, maybe through a series of antennas (or perhaps a Great Pyramid with a gold capstone on top), and their mind could grow into a vast intelligence, what would that person be if not a God?
And so that's why I consider God to be a project a sorts. An enormous amount of slave labor and resources are allocated into providing for a single person to ensure the continuity of life and all existence. I imagine the native people of the world are intentionally kept ignorant, because a democracy or communism on this scale would never work only a monarchy would. The people are taught bullshit about the afterlife and heaven to make their existence here a little easier and to maintain control over them. These people do the farming, mining, cutting of stone the gods themselves can't do without compromising their physical perfection. And the gods keep control over science, which to the natives is indistinguishable from magic or miracle.
And then one day the gods leave.
