In this game, about which I have written before (see “Ten Powers in the Game of Cosmic Encounter”), the ten powers that players have are summarized as follows:
| The name in the game | My name |
| Mutant | Regeneration |
| Mind | Knowledge |
| Zombie | Immortality |
| Empath | Empathy/Harmony |
| Macron | Power to (do) |
| Chronos | Time travel |
| Void | Power over (others) |
| Virus | Reproduction |
| Philanthropist | Altruism/generosity |
| Oracle | Prediction |
Three of these ten powers are biological: regeneration (regrowth after injury or amputation), immortality (possessed only by unicells and by cancer cells), and reproduction.
Five are mental/rational/technical: knowledge, time travel (redoing the past – probably impossible), prediction (knowledge of the future), power to, and power over.
Two are moral/social: empathy and altruism.
(I might add two comtemplative ones: beauty and spirituality.)
Which of these do we humans possess?
Biologically we have reproduction, regeneration only to some extent (not as much as invertebrates), and immortality not at all (it would be a disaster).
Technically, we have, partially only, knowledge, prediction, and the two kinds of power. We will never have time travel.
Morally we partially have empathy and altruism, but we could use more. (Sociopaths don’t have any.) Empathy (consciousness of others) is shared only by humans and some other primates. Altruism is practised e.g. by ants and bees, but purely by sociobiology, without much awareness.
The rational/technical powers are usually considered masculine, the ethical/social feminine. Wisdom (Sophia) is a compound of both.
Counting the biological powers as 1, 0.5, and 0 respectively, we have a total of 1.5. Among the technical, we have 0.5 for 4 of them and 0 for one, a total of 2. For the ethical, we have 0.5 for each, a total of 1. Summing it up, we have 45% of the possible powers.
God is:
- Eternal (has immortality, so needs no regeneration or reproduction),
- Omniscient (knowledge, prediction, time control)
- Omnipotent (power to and power over),
- Loving (has empathy and altruism).
His score is 100%.
Our score of 45% must be an overestimation!