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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
Well, in just about every post here - especially in ones where I introduced my interest in the topic, I have taken great pains to state as clearly as possible that I am interested in this as a non-theistic notion. That's about all I can do. A thorough reading of the threads I've posted to about "intelligence" should make that clear. At least, I hope it makes my intention clear. That being said, I'm quite aware of how many of the responses to my posts in these threads seem to infer theistic or god-type assertions. That's what I've been spending my time responding to, in the main here.
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understood. i get it that you don't want to think about this in God terms. but what i'm saying is that you have the exact same problems, theistic or not. You're taking a pattern and inferring a cause.
What if we are the only intelligence around? Or us and some other folks chilling on the opposite sides of the galaxy? These instances in no way logically demand a pattern or intrinsic quality to the universe that's "Intelligence."
/sorry lebell...this is thread jackage. maybe move it back to art's thread?