Monday, June 27, 2005

Vallicella responds to Steven Carr

One of Steven Carr's comments was in large part a response to Maverick Philosopher William Vallicella on intentionality, and Maverick responds here.

3 comments:

Steven Carr said...

And how can we tell whether or not such signalling systems have been intelligently designed, by using purely naturalistic methods?

Vallicella says that computers are not fully materialistic.

I rest my case.

I wonder if Victor agrees with me and with Vallicella that computers are purely physical objects, but not fully materialistic.

Victor Reppert said...

Couldn't Vallicella use the same arguments that he uses with respect to magnetic north with respect to bee dances as well?

Steven Carr said...

I made a big blunder interpreting what the Maverick Philosopher wrote and somebody has corrected me at
http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?p=2501895