(April 4, 2016 at 8:22 pm)bennyboy Wrote:Indeed, the division is always arbitrary as we have a mind that is fundamentally creative. And as such, we can always redefine our definitions.(April 4, 2016 at 7:58 pm)little_monkey Wrote: True, but computers don't compare to a human mind as the latter took 5 billion years to evolve to what it is today. Evolution doesn't have intentionality. It produces organism that struggles to survive. In that struggle, species improve in mobility, in responding to different stimuli, in adapting to a multitude of environments, and so on. Memory, self-awareness, intelligence increased as species became more complex. There's no reason to believe that evolution has any intentionality whatsoever. Randomness, natural selection, flow of the gene pool, etc. can account for the development of the different species. And we see in the development of the brain throughout this evolution. Why you need to believe in some intentionality is a question you need to ask yourself. I see no problem in not believe in any intentionality in the evolution of life on this planet. It makes life more wonderful, more precious, more exciting than to believe that some deity has a plan. Why would I want to be at the mercy of such a plan?!?Oops, careful there. When I talk about external intention, I'm talking about human intention: we see as coherent processes those things we've controlled, and as "just stuff" those which we haven't. But actually, this division is arbitrary.
When people disagree - often over definitions - this creative process of redefining terms is often referred as "moving the goal posts".