(April 21, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Mezmo! Wrote:(February 27, 2015 at 2:16 am)Pizza Wrote: Prove the necessary being is a thinking being.
Summa Theological, fifth way I.e. final cause.
The fifth way is Aquinus trying to sneak intelligence into natural laws. The natural laws are a byproduct of symmetries. For example, translation invariance (this spot over here is no different than that spot over there) -> conservation of momentum. No intelligence is required for the conservation laws to exist.