(January 18, 2015 at 3:44 pm)Darkstar Wrote:(January 18, 2015 at 1:46 pm)Heywood Wrote: Your claim is the movie is just a new configuration or arrangement of pre-existing stuff. Fine and good.....but isn't the configuration itself a new thing that previously didn't exist?
If all that it takes to 'create' something is to reconfigure atoms, then not all 'creations' specifically have a cause (i.e. spontaneous reactions).
A Harry Potter movie isn't just a configuration of atoms. It is also a configuration or words and ideas. But what I am saying is that a configuration itself is a thing. Three stones placed in a horizontal line is three stones placed in a horizontal line. Three stones piled one on top another is not three stones placed in a horizontal line.
