Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30333252-20150130091525/@comment-30333252-20150201160709

@Antvasima: Yes, your example is correct. It is indeed easier for higher dimensional objects to perceive lower dimensional ones. However, your logic is also somewhat flawed in specifically assuming a 3-dimensional person perceiving a line on a paper easily.

Let's assume that there is a 1-dimensional object (a line segment) which is constantly shifting it's direction as its moving, like a snake. However, the length of the line -> 0. It is so infintesmally small, it cannot be seen by an electron microscope, let alone the naked eye. In a case like this, we 3-dimensional people have absolutely no way of knowing whether the line even exists, nor where it currently is or where it will be next. A lower dimensional object/being might be easy enough to comprehend, but comprehending is not all there is to knowledge.

Simply assuming Omniscience is foolhardy, to say the least. Being of a higher dimensional order is not a guarantee of having knowledge of lower dimensional entities (like the example I gave just now). Again, I would like to cite the example of Pre-retcon Beyonder from Marvel, who clearly falls under this category. There is also the Primal Monitor from DC, an equally revelant example. Kami Tenchi may or may not be omniscient, since there are no feats to prove it either way. I personally believe that he's not, although that's not what this thread is for.

P.S.: For the record, I also believe that Kami Tenchi is omnipotent.

@Death horseman94: Yet absolute power is not equal to absolute knowledge. I think every character on the current Ultipotence page is proof enough of that. Hence not having Omniscience is not against the base condition of being an omnipotent.

Yes, it is true that Omnipotence is a concept derived from religion. However, every religion describes the Supreme Being to be omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenelovent, etc. Note that multiple terms are used to describe him/her/it, not just omnipotent. You might be confusing omnipotent with Supreme Being. Omnipotence is not equal to being the Supreme Being. Omipotence is simply being supremely powerful, nothing more and nothing less.

More than often, the two terms will apply to the same being. However my objective is not to debunk every fictional omnipotent character there is, but to change what our mind perceives when we think of Omnipotence. It should not be "God", but instead "a being with infinite power". That's all I'm trying to do with this thread, so I want to know if my manner of thinking makes sense to you.