(December 23, 2013 at 2:20 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(December 23, 2013 at 1:50 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Replace "computer" with "human" and "programmer" with "natural selection" and I don't see a fundamental difference.
The fundamental difference is, we tell the computer what to do. The programmer is in control. With natural selection, real life/consciousness, can learn, make decisions, draw on past experiences and process unexpected new ones in a way that computers simply can't at this point in time.
Of course we can, because natural selection programmed us that way. We make our own "programming" because that trait was benificial to the survival of our species. We're operating just as our "programmer" (natural selection) designed us to.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
