RE: A Working Draft Design Argument
October 14, 2019 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2019 at 10:17 am by GrandizerII.)
(October 14, 2019 at 9:59 am)Acrobat Wrote:(October 14, 2019 at 9:52 am)Grandizer Wrote: Yes.
By the way, what do you mean when you say reality is intentional? I am interpreting it as meaning reality is intended/designed/authored per your conclusion wording. Is this interpretation correct? Just want to make sure I'm not misunderstanding the argument.
Yes, or that reality possess intentional properties.
But since you agree with the above question.
When it comes to the deterministic reality of the novel, or in the programmers reality, do you acknowledge that it’s not the characters in the novel or simulation assigning meaning and values but the author and programmer of that reality?
Novel characters do not, and cannot, actually assign meanings and values.
Programmed beings could still be able to assign meanings and values to things, even if ultimately they are only able to do so because of how they've been programmed.
In a world that is not a program or simulation, it is also the case that we can assign things because we have been conditioned to do so, but the difference here is that such a world is not necessarily intentional. Intentions arise as a result of our nervous systems and aren't necessarily regulated ultimately by something metaphysically grand. The act of intentionality could be physical at its core. Neurons fire a certain way in response to certain stimuli, and the eventual response would be the outcome of further neural firings in the brain that we abstractly refer to as intention/decision/deliberation.
