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This is somewhat related to an idea I've been mulling over for a while now, which I was going to talk about in the previous post but decided to save for a later essay. But I'll mention a little bit of it now: I'd like to come up with an operational definition of what it means to be theist or atheist or agnostic. (Perhaps "behavioral" is a better word than "operational", if you know more about psychology than computer science theory.) In some sense, I truly don't care if you believe in God or not—what matters to me is what actions you take that affect me. Claiming to believe in God or not is often a good indicator for the actions you might take, but not always, and I'd like to think more about specifically what actions matter. There are different levels of mattering, of course; I care less about what a fellow citizen of my country does than what a coworker does or what a girlfriend does. But I haven't gotten much further than that yet. Maybe someone's already done this somewhere?