RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life...
November 30, 2014 at 3:45 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2014 at 3:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What apparent fine tuning? Why would life be the most complex thing, by what metrics? And why would an intellect be required? Just as gravity can operate a pneumatic timer and flip a toggle - things can be "tuned" by unthinking means...even when they are "tuned".
You already provided the example when you used minecraft......it's just a consequence of a computing system Heywood.....unless you think that intellect is required for computation (and thusly that computers have intellects...as well as anything else that is capable of computational work - like toilet paper rolls and balls of string)....then your own example tanked your argument. I don't have to find a "sub-reality", you offered one. Doesn't really matter if it isn't...you accepted that it was. End of.
(intellect as generally conceived is fairly easy to dismiss, btw).
You already provided the example when you used minecraft......it's just a consequence of a computing system Heywood.....unless you think that intellect is required for computation (and thusly that computers have intellects...as well as anything else that is capable of computational work - like toilet paper rolls and balls of string)....then your own example tanked your argument. I don't have to find a "sub-reality", you offered one. Doesn't really matter if it isn't...you accepted that it was. End of.
(intellect as generally conceived is fairly easy to dismiss, btw).
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