RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 3, 2015 at 12:00 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2015 at 12:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-The- evolutionary system, or even the example of your "evolved" simulated beings. There is a distinction between what evolves and what is designed, and that distinction lies precisely at the point of -how- change or structure is accomplished. While you may point to a simulated being (as your ace in the hole...like a fucking moron) what you fail to understand is that -anything- which meets the requirements of the sim is sufficient cause....intelligent or not. If pebbles or rolls of toilet paper set the initial conditions those sims would still work. Get it? They're machines Heywood...they aren't picky about their inputs.......whatever happens to flip the switch is a-ok. Got it?
In the most generous reading possible...you've mistaken the presence of intelligence with the necessity of intelligence. I wouldn't be so generous...personally, but you're pretending to have given this even a moments thought, so there it is. Let me rephrase so that theres no room for confusion. Even if there were a god, god wouldn't be required for evolution to work, or for evolved systems to exist.
In the most generous reading possible...you've mistaken the presence of intelligence with the necessity of intelligence. I wouldn't be so generous...personally, but you're pretending to have given this even a moments thought, so there it is. Let me rephrase so that theres no room for confusion. Even if there were a god, god wouldn't be required for evolution to work, or for evolved systems to exist.
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