Of course not.
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Replying to @Plinz
Oh, hmmm. It sounded like you were saying that there was something beyond the physics/entropy. You were saying that physics doesn't care. But the care comes from the physics. The equations are what gives the universe direction. That's the "care".
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Replying to @thewiseturtle
Caring is the primary dimension of intentionality. As far as we can say, physics is not intentional, it just happens.
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Replying to @Plinz
If physics doesn't create the "intentionality" and a supernatural force doesn't create it, then where does it come from?
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Replying to @thewiseturtle
From your brain, which has been wired to make you experience preferences by evolution.
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Replying to @Plinz
Ok, and physics programs the chemicals and electricity that makes your brain (and body), right? So the purpose, intentionality, etc. comes from the physics. The equations make everything, in an emergent process.
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Replying to @thewiseturtle
Yes. And it does not follow that physics is intentional. In the same way, physics is not patriotic, rich, hungry, enthusiastic, horny or perplexed.
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Replying to @Plinz
I guess it's back to semantics again. I say that the equations are what are intent. The equations make everything happen, generating all of reality. So that's where the intent comes from. It's an emergent property.
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Replying to @thewiseturtle
Please be more precise! The equations are specifications, but the universe must be an implementation. Emergence is a relationship between modeling frames, not a physical process. And if one frame emerges from another, its properties may be absent in the other.
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Replying to @Plinz
I'm sorry, I totally don't understand what you are trying to say. What is a "modeling frame" in real life? And how is reality "not a physical process"?
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A modeling frame is a set of functions that our mind uses to make sense of a domain. For instance, you may describe a computer via circuit state or program state. (The ultimate physical implementation is roughly the same part of the state vector of the universe.)
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