RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life...
November 30, 2014 at 4:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2014 at 4:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 30, 2014 at 3:59 pm)Heywood Wrote: Intellect...it appears....is another example of emergent complexity. I'm surprised none of you jumped on that yet.Which would be trouble....because now we're talking about the product creating the means of it's own production...huh? Since intellect is required and all that jazz, and we're limiting ourselves to observation, appeals to evidence.
Personally, I don't jump on intellect as an emergent property because I haven't seen any strong explanation of when or why it emerges, or why one system has it - and we say that it does because we observe an effect....while another system, identical effect...does not, or so we say. I think "intellect" is more than a bit of folklore. Seems to me intellect is more a description of how enamored we are of something we achieve (rather than a reference to the means we used to achieve it), especially since it doesn't impress us all that much (at least not enough to call it "intellect") when it's achieved by a variety of other structures - using a variety of means.
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