RE: The absurd need for logical proofs for God
December 2, 2020 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2020 at 10:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Does your mind know what or how it's doing what it does any better than evolutionary processes do? Ask it, see what it says. 
Nature designed minds, and now the minds think that their designs are..somehow...fundamentally different. Well, that may be so - but it doesn't endanger natural teleology in any way. The purpose we design for is extrinsic. The purpose nature designs for is intrinsic. Not all purpose is equivalent so we shouldn't expect all agents of purpose to be equivalent or for all of the products of purpose to be equivalent.
They aren't even equivalent between our conceptually equivalent agents of purpose. One potter uses a different clay, another a novel glaze, and each of them have varying levels of ability. Most of what we've done so far is to imitate nature, an ability which was given to us by the very thing we imitate. Human beings insist that we're very different from nature, somehow... but we would say that, wouldn't we. Just like minds think minds are super awesome designers.
Nature designed minds, and now the minds think that their designs are..somehow...fundamentally different. Well, that may be so - but it doesn't endanger natural teleology in any way. The purpose we design for is extrinsic. The purpose nature designs for is intrinsic. Not all purpose is equivalent so we shouldn't expect all agents of purpose to be equivalent or for all of the products of purpose to be equivalent.
They aren't even equivalent between our conceptually equivalent agents of purpose. One potter uses a different clay, another a novel glaze, and each of them have varying levels of ability. Most of what we've done so far is to imitate nature, an ability which was given to us by the very thing we imitate. Human beings insist that we're very different from nature, somehow... but we would say that, wouldn't we. Just like minds think minds are super awesome designers.
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