ABSTRACT
A disembodied omnipercipient being is possible. But, though possible, it would be absurd to suppose that a being of this kind that could properly be called 'God'. There is, however, no difficulty in regarding an omnipercipient being as also omniscient and omnipotent. If God were omnipercipient he would, since he has no eyes, have to see without eyes. But seeing with eyes has the disadvantage of connecting the seer with some parts of the material world – the place where the eyes are – more closely than with others. Hence seeing with eyes would limit the vision of the seer to objects in their vicinity. Though there is nothing incoherent about the idea of God's seeing everything from everywhere at once, the view that he does this is nevertheless burdened with nearly overwhelming difficulties. Indeed, he would have to be omnipercipient to explain how it is that he knows everything that there is to know about the universe.
