Etritonakin
Well-Known Member
Technically, they are opposed.
However, believing that the most advanced being in existence -by which all other things and beings consist -would find it wise to directly create every last thing instantaneously does not make sense. Automation allows for more to be done with less effort -and automated variety and survivability would be quite wise and infinitely interesting. Believing that an eternal being did absolutely nothing for eternity -then suddenly popped everything into existence instantaneously also does not make sense.
Similarly, believing that intelligence and design are separate does not make sense.
Design is by intelligence, and intelligence is by design.
The whole of the design of that which exists is the intelligence that caused it to exist -and that which exists is the design of that intelligence.
We believe ourselves to be intelligent beings, but our intelligence is due to our design. We would not say that any one part of us is intelligent, so intelligence is an arrangement of parts. As our parts are arranged, intelligence comes to exist.
We did not design our own intelligence -therefore our intelligence was designed by another intelligence.
Originally, intelligence and design must have increased directly together.
The very beginning of all must have been the most simple state possible.
Where there is design, there is a designer. Where there is a designer, it must be of a certain design. The more capable the designer, the more complex its design -and the more complex are its designs.
Once an intelligence existed by design, and a design by intelligence, the two could then become more apparently separate. Only then could an intelligence produce an environment for and of itself -or others. Before that, the environment of the intelligence would have been its own design alone.
Many individual self-aware intelligent designers within an environment must have been preceded by a single original self-aware intelligent designer responsible for that environment.
If we imagine isolating our intelligence, we are left with a mind separate from a body. It would then be useless. It would not have an environment or an interface with that environment. It would be its own environment. However, it could then imagine an environment and interface with it -and that is logically what it would do. Another logical step would be reproduction.
Of course, our minds are limited in power by their design -and our present inability to change their design to any great degree -but an original mind would not be limited at all. An original mind would have power over its own design and the design of all things.
We consider ourselves intelligent beings as a whole, because our bodies allow us to express our intelligence to an environment. The fact that our bodies are not intelligences themselves does not mean they are not part of an intelligent being. The fact that our environment is not an intelligence itself does not mean it is not part of an intelligent being.
Our environment is moved by an intelligence greater than ourselves -in fact, an intelligence in at least direct proportion to the whole of the environment.
However, believing that the most advanced being in existence -by which all other things and beings consist -would find it wise to directly create every last thing instantaneously does not make sense. Automation allows for more to be done with less effort -and automated variety and survivability would be quite wise and infinitely interesting. Believing that an eternal being did absolutely nothing for eternity -then suddenly popped everything into existence instantaneously also does not make sense.
Similarly, believing that intelligence and design are separate does not make sense.
Design is by intelligence, and intelligence is by design.
The whole of the design of that which exists is the intelligence that caused it to exist -and that which exists is the design of that intelligence.
We believe ourselves to be intelligent beings, but our intelligence is due to our design. We would not say that any one part of us is intelligent, so intelligence is an arrangement of parts. As our parts are arranged, intelligence comes to exist.
We did not design our own intelligence -therefore our intelligence was designed by another intelligence.
Originally, intelligence and design must have increased directly together.
The very beginning of all must have been the most simple state possible.
Where there is design, there is a designer. Where there is a designer, it must be of a certain design. The more capable the designer, the more complex its design -and the more complex are its designs.
Once an intelligence existed by design, and a design by intelligence, the two could then become more apparently separate. Only then could an intelligence produce an environment for and of itself -or others. Before that, the environment of the intelligence would have been its own design alone.
Many individual self-aware intelligent designers within an environment must have been preceded by a single original self-aware intelligent designer responsible for that environment.
If we imagine isolating our intelligence, we are left with a mind separate from a body. It would then be useless. It would not have an environment or an interface with that environment. It would be its own environment. However, it could then imagine an environment and interface with it -and that is logically what it would do. Another logical step would be reproduction.
Of course, our minds are limited in power by their design -and our present inability to change their design to any great degree -but an original mind would not be limited at all. An original mind would have power over its own design and the design of all things.
We consider ourselves intelligent beings as a whole, because our bodies allow us to express our intelligence to an environment. The fact that our bodies are not intelligences themselves does not mean they are not part of an intelligent being. The fact that our environment is not an intelligence itself does not mean it is not part of an intelligent being.
Our environment is moved by an intelligence greater than ourselves -in fact, an intelligence in at least direct proportion to the whole of the environment.
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