RE: Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?
October 8, 2014 at 7:31 pm
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2014 at 7:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 8, 2014 at 7:25 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Software does emerge naturally from hardware.Indeed it does, but I'm guessing that this was a typo.
Quote: People insert it.Needn't be people, nor is there any need for "insertion".
Quote:People structure the hardware and software to represent propositional states.We do, yes...so it's useful -to us-.
Quote: Neither the software or the hardware have any meaning except for what has been assigned in advance.They're both full of meaning, you're conflating utility with a whole host of other things. Computers don't work because we arrange them thus and thus, we arrange them thus and thus -so that they can do work for us-. They'll "do work" and it will "have meaning" even if we (or no sentient being) arranged them any particular way. We might not find it useful, but the cosmos owes us nothing, so meh?
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