I agree, but I think there’s another way to look at it.
I think the answer to the question, “Does complexity require complexity to come into existence?” is directly related to the nature of god, and the logical relationship between the two questions does more for explaining Deism’s existence in history.
If complexity requires complexity, then some form of complexity must have spawned the complexity of the world, and we can call this complex form ‘god’.
If complexity does not require complexity and rather can form from simple systems, then god is no longer implied. (This assumes we do not wish to worship a ‘simple’ system, denoting it some low-dimensional phase-space ‘god’)
What I’m getting at is that the existence of Deism was a product of the technology of the time, but in multiple ways simultaneously. The drawing of the equivalence between the mind and computation is one such way technology of the time produced Deism. Another way is how the understanding of complexity forming from simplicity requires simulation, and at the time only analog simulation was available. There was no reproducible or scalable way to test abstract systems for emergence.
What you said is the push, the cause of why (some) people of the 18th century were Deists.
What I’m pointing out is the pull, a reason why Deism as it was, no longer exists.
I agree, but I think there’s another way to look at it.
I think the answer to the question, “Does complexity require complexity to come into existence?” is directly related to the nature of god, and the logical relationship between the two questions does more for explaining Deism’s existence in history.
If complexity requires complexity, then some form of complexity must have spawned the complexity of the world, and we can call this complex form ‘god’.
If complexity does not require complexity and rather can form from simple systems, then god is no longer implied. (This assumes we do not wish to worship a ‘simple’ system, denoting it some low-dimensional phase-space ‘god’)
What I’m getting at is that the existence of Deism was a product of the technology of the time, but in multiple ways simultaneously. The drawing of the equivalence between the mind and computation is one such way technology of the time produced Deism. Another way is how the understanding of complexity forming from simplicity requires simulation, and at the time only analog simulation was available. There was no reproducible or scalable way to test abstract systems for emergence.
What you said is the push, the cause of why (some) people of the 18th century were Deists.
What I’m pointing out is the pull, a reason why Deism as it was, no longer exists.
Fun topic :)