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Which is one of the arguments the ancient Greeks (Aristotle in particular) used to argue that God must exist. Things are clearly ordered to ends (have goal-dir
by svieira 3y ago
Which is one of the arguments the ancient Greeks (Aristotle in particular) used to argue that God must exist. Things are clearly ordered to ends (have goal-directed behavior). Others came to the conclusion that all things that are are part of one enormous goal-directed-entity, but that conclusion involves a bootstrapping problem on the part of that entity (which is composed of parts) and so I don't hold with it.
- agumonkey 3y agoI'm not sure I see a bootstrapping issue. Time and chaos will remove non teleological agents, doesn't it ? it would just emerge out of selection.
- svieira 3y agoThe issue with the goal arising out of nothing is just that. To put it another way, a goal arising out of nothing is an effect without sufficient cause to explain it.