(April 23, 2016 at 7:49 am)SteveII Wrote:(April 22, 2016 at 11:51 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote: If I create a computer, am I not rearranging its prior constituent material into something new with properties that the material didn't have before? Aren't I intelligently assigning the computer with properties?
You are not assigning anything. If the device turns on and performs, then you have a computer. If it does not turn on, you have a pile of pieces --each with their own properties. Perhaps you are confusing assigning a word to describe a property. There are hundreds of word in other languages that all mean computer. The property of being a computer transcends all of those.
The constituent parts of the material were unable to perform mathematical processes until I assembled them. The constituent parts did not have the property of being able to perform mathematical operations. Now they do. Are you saying the constituent parts always had this property? If yes, can you explain how that makes sense?
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.
