(April 25, 2016 at 3:40 pm)SteveII Wrote:(April 23, 2016 at 9:47 am)Nihilist Virus Wrote: 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?
You are confusing creating something with assigning it properties. They are not the same thing. For example, if you very carefully carved a cubes out of block of wood -- you created a cube. You did not assign the properties (wooden, cube, x volume, brown, etc.). Additionally, that block of wood used to (but no more) have the property of being a tree.
I agree that in your example the cube was not assigned the property of being wood by my actions, but it clearly wasn't a cube before, and yet now it is, and so those are new properties that came about because of my actions. How is that not assigning properties?
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.
