Seeing red

[The Grand Nudger]

Such a person tacitly concedes the weakness of their position. The apparent intentional behavior of the hardware depends on software and programed instructions, both of which are immaterial forms that people impose on the hardware. Software isn’t just descriptive of the system; but rather, proscriptive (see below). It serves as an example of something immaterial that is distinguishable from the material in which it manifests.

I matters very little how the software got there (or how the hardware was built).  Your statement was obviously and thoroughly incorrect because material stuff very clearly can be "about something".  If, instead of your poorly stated initial objection, you feel that software cannot be programmed or hardware cannot be built in our absence.... I can only point you to the multitudinous examples of bioautomata in the plant kingdom.



Something tells me that this won't alter your position a single iota. You'll go on about how matter can't account for this, can't account for that....the fact of the matter in any such statement being utterly irrelevant. It's all a farce, as you would not have examples of "x" to point to as things matter can't account for unless, in fact, there are things doing "x" in the first place.