RE: The Kalam Cosmological argument.
January 7, 2024 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2024 at 2:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I wonder whether we've ever considered the inference in reverse? That things like code and language do not suggest a supernatural intelligence, rather, they suggest a natural stupidity. Language and codes are things we use to solve problems. They're a means of overcoming general and specific incompetence. Buncha nerds around here, but the question of why a god would need a starship is mechanically identical to the question of why it would need code or language. FWIW, there are other living things that don't employ language or code (in any way we understand either, at least) to overcome those same problems. Often better than we can. We imagined ourselves doubly wise, but if we're really thinking about intelligence in general it's useful to remember that what looks really fucking smart to the thinking ape is often the dumbest apey-ist shit imaginable. If we apprehend this natural and regular order with languages and codes and creatures like us (and not like us) as something so impressive only a god could account for it, we might be selling gods short.
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