RE: God, Energy and Matter
September 3, 2019 at 7:38 am
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2019 at 7:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The tendency to explain or perceive by reference to purpose is hardwired into human biology.
Properly, that sense of purpose is a biological property of hss. As are the properties of intentionality and personhood. That sort of thinking is a schema by which we apprehend things according to their desirability and usefulness, to us.
We do it from childhood onward. In defense of the schema, we live in a world choked with intentional utility. Our lives have revolved around building structures and tools since homo habilis. In a powerful sense, it’s a true and authentic human apprehension.
We’ve progressed a great deal over time, in that regard, and our beliefs about the divine underwent a similar transformation. Totems and flaked tools and honor-warrior gods have given way to a completely artificial environment with The Grand Engineer as its designer.
There’s a confluence between desirability and usefulness, and what the natural world provides. We can see a spruce tree as a pallet of wall studs. That’s probably why watchmaker arguments of any kind are so popular. We’re watchmakers who can appreciate the natural beauty of a tree as another watchmakers work. A watchmaker like us, however we happen to be in that time and place. Just more competent, working on larger projects.
Properly, that sense of purpose is a biological property of hss. As are the properties of intentionality and personhood. That sort of thinking is a schema by which we apprehend things according to their desirability and usefulness, to us.
We do it from childhood onward. In defense of the schema, we live in a world choked with intentional utility. Our lives have revolved around building structures and tools since homo habilis. In a powerful sense, it’s a true and authentic human apprehension.
We’ve progressed a great deal over time, in that regard, and our beliefs about the divine underwent a similar transformation. Totems and flaked tools and honor-warrior gods have given way to a completely artificial environment with The Grand Engineer as its designer.
There’s a confluence between desirability and usefulness, and what the natural world provides. We can see a spruce tree as a pallet of wall studs. That’s probably why watchmaker arguments of any kind are so popular. We’re watchmakers who can appreciate the natural beauty of a tree as another watchmakers work. A watchmaker like us, however we happen to be in that time and place. Just more competent, working on larger projects.
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