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Can you explain the fundamental difference between our intent and the intent of, say, a molecule in our chain of evolution? Is it free will? Because that debate
by amelius 6mo ago
Can you explain the fundamental difference between our intent and the intent of, say, a molecule in our chain of evolution? Is it free will? Because that debate hasn't been sorted out yet.
- wat10000 6mo agoThe difference is intelligence, which might be a better word than “intent.” A fence was built by someone with some measure of intelligence. An evolved feature is randomness combined with selection pressures, and sometimes it’s only there because it’s not sufficiently detrimental to be selected out.
- amelius 6mo agoOk, intelligence is better than intent yes. But intelligence doesn't have a good definition and most people would say that it exists on a continuum. And when thinking of human-designed products, you can also say that there is selection pressure, and features can be selected out, etc. So I don't think there's a fundamental difference here.