RE: A Working Draft Design Argument
October 14, 2019 at 6:28 pm
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2019 at 6:45 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 13, 2019 at 10:24 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(October 13, 2019 at 9:00 pm)Grandizer Wrote: I don't see how you've established that reality possesses values and meanings ultimately rooted in some first cause. Causality need not require intentionality.
What ultimately assigns values and meaning in a deterministic universe?
A set of neurological circuits that were configured to conceives of value and meaning and assign them to some object or concepts. Nothing more.
(October 13, 2019 at 7:13 pm)Acrobat Wrote: P1- Intentionality gives things value and meaning. Novels possess intrinsic values and meaning, as a result of being authored, designed, endowed by their authors to posses such elements.
P2-If reality possess value and meaning, we can use logic to infer a cause, from an effect. I.E. That which possess values and meaning, indicate intentionality, authorship, design, etc..
P3-Determinism is true. To ask for proof of determinism, implies it’s true. The question itself requires determinism to be true, preceding factors to reach x conclusion, the conclusion is drawn from previously existing causes.
P4-All preceding factors, have preceding factors of their own, until one reaches a point which posses no preceding factors, i.e a first cause, or a type of uncaused singularity, that’s the ultimate determining cause of all causes, all knowledge, all past and future, events, all values and meanings, etc..
P5- Since reality possess values and meanings, that are ultimately rooted in the first cause, reality is an intentional work, authored designed, a novel.
Quantum mechanics say cause is in principle not a fundamental attribute of reality. It is but an empirical fiction that approximate the gross behavior of systems at large scale under a set of contingent circumstances. It has no deeper reality. So P-4 is in principle, not just in application, bullshit.