“Whatever intelligence is, it can’t be intelligent all the way down. It’s just dumb stuff at the bottom.”
— Andy Clark
The problem is that people perceive intelligent agents to be kind of a black box, a cornucopia that can sprout an abundance of novelty. But if you are going to create an intelligent agent, you need a blueprint. Such a design pattern ultimately has to have its origin in unintelligent processes, or needs to be there from the beginning.
I am far from a complexity theorist, so please correct me if I am wrong, but if some things were irreducible complex, then it would not only apply to creations but also to their blueprints. Either the idea for our universe was already given, in which case god would merely be a compiler or executor, or the idea evolved from simpler, or “less complete” predecessors, in which case there was no irreducible complexity. The advance of knowledge seems to be an evolutionary process itself.
“Whatever intelligence is, it can’t be intelligent all the way down. It’s just dumb stuff at the bottom.” — Andy Clark
The problem is that people perceive intelligent agents to be kind of a black box, a cornucopia that can sprout an abundance of novelty. But if you are going to create an intelligent agent, you need a blueprint. Such a design pattern ultimately has to have its origin in unintelligent processes, or needs to be there from the beginning.
I am far from a complexity theorist, so please correct me if I am wrong, but if some things were irreducible complex, then it would not only apply to creations but also to their blueprints. Either the idea for our universe was already given, in which case god would merely be a compiler or executor, or the idea evolved from simpler, or “less complete” predecessors, in which case there was no irreducible complexity. The advance of knowledge seems to be an evolutionary process itself.