[Heartlander]

If a rock falls and breaks into three smaller rocks, all sitting on the flat surface of the ground, how many objects are there? Three rocks? Three rocks and a triangle? Where did that fourth object, the triangle, "come from"?

Jenny, this has become boring… Where does intelligence come from in an ultimately mindless universe? It’s an intrinsic quality Jenny… Continue breaking rocks and get back to me…

[jennyp]

Jenny, this has become boring… Where does intelligence come from in an ultimately mindless universe? It’s an intrinsic quality Jenny… Continue breaking rocks and get back to me

OK, if you don't like the triangle analogy, then let's move on to another simple, yet perhaps better, analogy: Where does water's wetness come from when none of its component parts - oxygen & hydrogen - are wet? Wetness is an intrinsic quality of water. Did "wetness" have to come from somewhere else - injected as it were into the molecule, perhaps by an angel for whom it's their job, or is wetness simply an emergent property of the chemical combination of oxygen & hydrogen?