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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre 
I have difficulty accepting your analogy as it's stated because I can't conceive of how a being with the power to divide itself, limit the awareness of those divided entities, yet still share the awareness of all of those entities, is not able to divide its attention between multiple screens.
I also think it's misleading to compare ourselves to the source entity. As long as a similarity between humans and God is even implied, I've no doubt that people will resist accepting the idea of God as much more than human. A God that is all that is, and a God with two eyes, are irreconcilable in my opinion.
I would more readily accept the analogy if the source entity could view all the screens at once, but decided that full sensory experience would be the more rewarding option. But that still leaves the question of why? Why would an omnipotent being have any need or desire to observe and express himself?
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Stop being such a literalist. The "two-eyes" analogy is a metaphor for an obstacle that God needed to solve. And this is merely a theory of mine; I don't for a second mean to infer that this is fact. That would be ridiculous, of course.
The infinite number of screens is also a metaphor for PHYSICAL BEINGS; a "full sensory experience" is kinda a given. God dividing himself into infinite duplicates is how he solves the problem of not being able to live out infinite physical lifetimes all at once in his original, singular state (again, just theory). As you yourself put it, the full sensory experience is preferable, and clearly more efficient. God, being a non-physical Spirit, MUST divide himself infinitely in order to do this. Being omnipotent, he can and does. Even God cannot snap his ethereal fingers and declare to have knowledge of experiences that have yet to occur, so I simply offer a theory about how perhaps the process took place.
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Perhaps God conjured physical matter not out of nothingness, but out of itself. Perhaps we, and everything in existence, are part of God, but also have our own real physical existence. Perhaps reality isn't purely subjective, or purely objective, but a combination of both.
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It's simply not possible. Even for God. One cannot create SOMETHING from absolute NOTHING. Assuming in this theory -- and not all that different from how Genesis reads -- In the beginning...." there was God and nothing else. No Universe, no stars nor galaxies nor dark or light matter. Nothing at all physical. Just this thought-energy clump of self-awareness all alone, surrounded by an infinite void of absolute nothingness.
Assuming this self-awareness is the "God" we all refer to, and that said God has grown to the point that he is aware of his power to create, he still has to work with some basic building blocks. Since He, Himself is all there is to work with, then it's logical that everything from that point on that God creates is comprised of whatever it is that God was orginally comprised of -- most likely thought and energy vibrations.
Since quantum physics shows us that all matter when broken down to its basic building blocks is truly ENERGY, it becomes logical to assume that God made the physical universe out of the thought-mind-energy that was Himself, and, basically, all there really was to work with.
~ RS