tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post4923801312812019031..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Authorless booksAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-72479515349282196692017-03-25T05:05:47.180-05:002017-03-25T05:05:47.180-05:00Funny, while I was reading your post I was almost ...Funny, while I was reading your post I was almost sure what direction your conclusion was going to go, but I was wrong.<br /><br />I thought you were going to draw on your story to make an analogy with our appreciation of the logic of creation, whether you are a materialist (everything comes by chance and evolution, no author) or you believe in creation (an author). This could help show how weird it is to see all this logic, and all these connections in the world and in history, and still believe nobody wrote this story, and no logic connects the form of this "text".Gorodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14160008276219455300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-57597783128630805032017-03-24T20:04:21.643-05:002017-03-24T20:04:21.643-05:00But surely God didn’t write the randomly generated...But surely God didn’t write the randomly generated book. He may have intended that the randomly generated book come to be without having intended to say what the book says. (Authors of fiction presumably intend to say something with their books.) <br /><br />It doesn’t seem to me like it would be impossible for God to create an authorless book, where part of his intention included the fact that none of all of the interesting connections in the book were there ‘by chance’. SMatthewStoltehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06632670946997680263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-36814668948285107242017-03-24T15:47:10.000-05:002017-03-24T15:47:10.000-05:00In the case of a novel written by a computer, we w...In the case of a novel written by a computer, we would have some hope of distinguishing between real and merely apparent connections, based on the code generating the novel.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-23899066235687345592017-03-24T15:29:19.874-05:002017-03-24T15:29:19.874-05:00Maybe if you believe God and gratuitous evil are c...Maybe if you believe God and gratuitous evil are compatible then this hypothesis and God are also compatible...what about a book written by AI would that be disquieting. <br /><br /> Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05569340378356607760noreply@blogger.com