Natural Teleology: More Thomas Nagel (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 03, 2013, 16:11 (4309 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:I don't agree that only an intellect can create information. Information is everywhere, even in a grain of sand, though it takes an intellect of some kind to extract, evaluate and use it.-A grain of sand is the result of erosion of rock which came from lava orginally. It has a crystallin structure, which is pretty but does not contain information of any use other than descriptive.-> 
> dhw: Your version is a single planning mind right from the start; what I've described is not a single mind, and doesn't even lead to a single mind: it's an on-going process with an almost infinite number of different "minds" (in inverted commas, because they're not minds as we know them ... just as your God is not a mind as we know it) constantly combining to form new "minds". You might call it process theology without God. -Can you describe the 'process' in your theory? Your supposition is much more complex than my simple suggestion of a first cause mind.