A person who created such a design would need to be very clever, yet very foolish.
I’m confused. Are you ignoring the faction that would be clever enough to create these designs and would do so for fun; calling such people foolish for having this hobby; or assuming that they don’t exist?
People who design and build Rube Goldbergs just for fun are (if successful) necessarily clever; very, very few of them believe that the resulting machines are actually useful in any meaningful sense, I think, so there would be no grounds for considering them foolish.
When you fully explain your bright/intelligent distinction you should also include a list of synonyms and antonyms for each. It seems like you’re using “foolish” as an antonym for one and not the other, “brainy” as a synonym for one and not the other, etc.
Certainly, but someone who actually thought they’d be useful would need to be foolish.
A person who created such a design would need to be very clever, yet very foolish.
Similarly, Searle must be pretty brainy, but his arguments make so little sense that they’re absurd.
I’m confused. Are you ignoring the faction that would be clever enough to create these designs and would do so for fun; calling such people foolish for having this hobby; or assuming that they don’t exist?
I just didn’t address them.
People who design and build Rube Goldbergs just for fun are (if successful) necessarily clever; very, very few of them believe that the resulting machines are actually useful in any meaningful sense, I think, so there would be no grounds for considering them foolish.
When you fully explain your bright/intelligent distinction you should also include a list of synonyms and antonyms for each. It seems like you’re using “foolish” as an antonym for one and not the other, “brainy” as a synonym for one and not the other, etc.