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I say that there is a significant difference between knowing and experiencing. You might KNOW that it is cold outside, but can your body experience the feeling without going outside? Especially without past experience to draw on? God might KNOW that there are an infinite set of possibilities of an infinite set of parameters, but is that the same as experiencing each? I say not.
If everyone in the world was exactly my height, 6 feet 4 inches tall - would I be able to experience being tall? I may conceive of a place where I am 8 feet tall, thereby being taller than everyone else, but its only a concept - not an experience. In order to experience what you ARE you must experience that which you are NOT.
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Omniscience is infinite knowledge or at least knowledge of everything that does or can exist. This would include knowledge of all experience as well. Hence while none of us may know what it would be like to fall into the center of the sun, an omniscient being would, even though the actual experience never happened. I would argue that for an omniscient being knowledge would equal to the actual experience, since it would be perfect knowledge with no details left out.
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I may conceive of a place where I am 8 feet tall, thereby being taller than everyone else, but its only a concept - not an experience.
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Our power of conception is limited due to our imperfect minds. If we were omniscient such a problem would not occur.