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I hope I am not hijacking this thread, but omniscience does tie into free will so I guess it is relevant.
:::OshnSoul:::,
Omniscience is infinite knowledge. It is knowledge of everything past, present and future. Omniscience also means having knowledge of all possibilities and their past, present and future.
As god is infinite he is able to experience infinity. God's omniscience means that god already has knowledge of the experience of infinity. Now omniscient knowledge would not be as our knowledge. Our memory is vague and corrupt; while omniscient knowledge would be the equivalent of the experience. An omniscient being already knows what the experience would be like down to every single detail in all possibilities.
"In order to know your Self, to know what "You are" you must have what "You are not".
That would be a contradiction of omniscience, as one would already know the experience of not having omniscience.
“Couldn't He still choose to experience Himself, even if He knew the outcomes?”
Yes an omniscient god could, though the drive behind this would be questionable. As god would already have the knowledge of experiencing things with the knowledge of the outcome.
It’s rather perplexing; I don’t pretend to have the answers.
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