(December 26, 2015 at 2:09 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(December 26, 2015 at 2:00 pm)pool Wrote: If a house that is built by humans and a house that was formed by random events are indistinguishable from each other then they are the same thing. If you think it's not the same thing, you're thinking too much into it.
It doesn't matter if the L.H.S is 5+1 or 7-1 the R.H.S 6 is same in both these instances. Nobody says the R.H.S in the first instant is addition 6 and in the second instance is subtraction 6. Just 6.
No it is not.
A stone axe made by a human or hominid is designed, a stone shaped by nature that resembles a stone axe in every way is not. To have design you first need intent and a plan which random events do not have. Even if the random event has a sophisticated outcome and by pure chance conjours up a fully functioning spaceship with lace trimmed steering wheel it would not be designed, just very, very unlikely.
I like that. You're good.
But I disagree that a design needs a plan. I agree about intent - the intent being "to impose certain critirea's, rules, constrainsts etc".
I can design a game without planning how I'm going to approach the design process. I'm sure because I actually did that. lol