And then it would break a week later. :smile:
If the US built it, Bush would probably order it fired at Bin Laden's most likely location and end up blowing up the planet.
Look back on anything you've ever done when you felt you could have done something differently in the exact same situation. That would imply that two identical situations could have different outcomes, which would imply that the universe isn't deterministic. The only alternative to determinism...
A long time ago, when people knew very little about the universe, they would form beliefs to fill the voids of their knowledge. Because these weren't based on fact (or that "one truth", as you said), they varied from group to group the way many other cultural aspects do.
Nope, I can't disprove that there is at least some form of god. I think you can tell a few things about what that god is like if it does exist by looking at the universe, but that's about it. Anyway...
"Can you prove god's non-existance?"
The word God in this question can be switched with...
^^If time and space are illusions, what aren't illusions? What's the difference between illusions and non-illusions? In my opinion that word doesn't even mean anything. If you can perceive something, it exists, and that's all there is to it (again, IMO).
Original question: Nope, can't imagine...
I consider it to be a civilization when the creatures learn to write or otherwise store information so they can keep historical records. I'd vote for 10 in that case (just a wild guess).