intelligent, because it produces things that can only be produced by intelligence
But that's the rub, of course. The process of evolution isn't obviously intelligent and seems to have produced new forms of life even so. There's lots of simpler examples of systems that seem to have no discernable special qualities but whose emergent properties are surprising and seem to speak of a higher intelligence, though-- fractals, various physical processes, the perfect spirals of a snail's shell, etc. Would you say those are intelligent too?
Here's my own version of your thinking: I believe in Strong Divinity. Any entity or system that produces results worthy of being worshipped is divine. So however, whoever or whatever is reponsible for our existence gets my prayers.
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Date: 2005-08-22 03:15 pm (UTC)intelligent, because it produces things that can only be produced by intelligence
But that's the rub, of course. The process of evolution isn't obviously intelligent and seems to have produced new forms of life even so. There's lots of simpler examples of systems that seem to have no discernable special qualities but whose emergent properties are surprising and seem to speak of a higher intelligence, though-- fractals, various physical processes, the perfect spirals of a snail's shell, etc. Would you say those are intelligent too?
Here's my own version of your thinking: I believe in Strong Divinity. Any entity or system that produces results worthy of being worshipped is divine. So however, whoever or whatever is reponsible for our existence gets my prayers.