Unknown: uh… no. That’s a bit of word games nonsense. Playing word games is not a way to resolve the dispute, since you know very well that what you said was not what was intended by the definition I gave.
First, the mathematical object didn’t “create” the world, it is the world.
Second, no way no how could one justifiably consider it to be doing it as a “deliberate act of will to achieve desired ends” To simply say “it has structure/order, therefor will” and claim that “by definition” is absurd.
Its nature may cause/be reality, but it certainly isn’t doing it with goals/desires/will. That is, this in no way is anywhere near the cluster of things that I’d consider “will”
Unknown: uh… no. That’s a bit of word games nonsense. Playing word games is not a way to resolve the dispute, since you know very well that what you said was not what was intended by the definition I gave.
First, the mathematical object didn’t “create” the world, it is the world.
Second, no way no how could one justifiably consider it to be doing it as a “deliberate act of will to achieve desired ends” To simply say “it has structure/order, therefor will” and claim that “by definition” is absurd.
Its nature may cause/be reality, but it certainly isn’t doing it with goals/desires/will. That is, this in no way is anywhere near the cluster of things that I’d consider “will”