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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: one_less who wrote (24062)6/22/2006 1:44:23 PM
From: one_less   of 28931
 
"...is the boulder intelligent or is the boulder dumb as a rock?

The boulder is dumb as a rock. However, the goal of reaching the boulder involves intelligence. The goal required a conscious awareness of the various factors in the challenge. It involved awareness of resources and strategy. It involved choice making both in planning and in problem solving enroute to the goal.

So Shmue used intelligence to reach his goal. Did the intelligence come from Shmue or did Shmue's brain tap into it? Did Shmue 'use' the intelligence or did Shmue create it. Is the same intelligence available to other rational beings? If it was available before Shmue, then can we legitimately claim Shmue created it? In either case we cannot claim the possession of this intelligence to be exclusively Shmue's, now. What is the domain of this intelligence?
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