(January 6, 2015 at 7:56 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 6, 2015 at 7:48 pm)Heywood Wrote: What is the substantial difference between generic intellect and human intellect? If they are substantially the same thing I don't see what the issue is.
The difference is that you don't have any evidence of generic intellects existing or involving themselves in earthly affairs, which according to your own premises should preclude them from your list of possible origins for evolutionary systems.
They could be functionally identical to human intellects, but if they don't come from Earth, as the product of an Earthly evolutionary system, then you've never seen them before and therefore must eliminate them from the running. It's the flaw in your argument that turns the entire thing into a circular, self refuting mess.
My idea of a generic intellect is essentially the same as a human intellect so I see no need to make the distinction you are asking me to make. If a human intellect can create evolutionary systems....without even attempting it as in the case of Chinese Whispers....what force of nature or obstacle exists that prevents another kind of intellect from doing the same? I know what your going to say....some mysterious force that we just haven't discovered yet....right?
The condition of being human is an artifact of our biology. The condition of being human is not an artifact of intellect. The distinction you are making is irrelevant and you are grasping at straws in an attempt to maintain a belief in something which has never ever been observed. The truth is, you have no good reason whatsoever to believe that evolutionary systems can come into existence sans intellect. You believe it only as a matter of faith and not on some objective observation of reality.
