Fair enough; I was intending exactly a broad and unsophisticated definition of mind. An information processing unit should be all that’s required. It does still put a damper in “universal meaning” or, in an argument I had with a theist a long time back, the idea that the rocks and the trees and “creation” in general “groaned” when Adam and Eve sinned—as if these objects could care about such a thing were they not possessed by pixies.
That having been said, the passage your friend was referring to (Romans 8 22) is basically saying that the difference between good and evil is a matter of life and death, not just for us, but for everything. And singularitarians around here tend to think something quite similar. One group think there is a good God, and the others are trying to make one....
Fair enough; I was intending exactly a broad and unsophisticated definition of mind. An information processing unit should be all that’s required. It does still put a damper in “universal meaning” or, in an argument I had with a theist a long time back, the idea that the rocks and the trees and “creation” in general “groaned” when Adam and Eve sinned—as if these objects could care about such a thing were they not possessed by pixies.
Well, yes.....
That having been said, the passage your friend was referring to (Romans 8 22) is basically saying that the difference between good and evil is a matter of life and death, not just for us, but for everything. And singularitarians around here tend to think something quite similar. One group think there is a good God, and the others are trying to make one....