Faust wrote:Structure does not imply intelligence. Humans like the Intelligent Design argument because we design things. And we have intelligence. God supposedly looks like a human, and even was one, once.
Because we designed him.
Any caused thing is structured? So the "unstructured" things are not caused? What does "structured" even mean if everything is structured? Who is "one?" Free from what, exactly, by the way. What is it we're supposed to be so free from?
All this epistemology is essentially religious. There's very little thinking to do in Christianity, anymore. That ship has sailed.
So, is this about AI?
That's what I was thinking he or she was doing. Something like
since we must control the product through how we design it, it will be only following our designs and hence cannot be free.Of course we might create learning systems and I am pretty sure most AI work now is in doing that. Though one could argue that still there will be embedded meta heuristics and still the things will not be free.
Then one might ask: do you consider us free?
If not, well, no real surprise that we can't make free agents, except perhaps by accident (were it possible).
But then if the answer is 'yes, we are free agents', Then how did evolution manage to create us. Or even a deity.
All of which circling around free will and determinsm.
I think a definition of 'free' is in order from the OP.