[Nebullis]

It's useful to talk about procedures, algorithms, or any other way of referring to laws of nature, only after the beginning of time. Any discussion of "at" the beginning (during singularity?) or before is rather quite meaningless. Perhaps, the existence of natural laws implies an "intelligence" of some sort, but, at most, the attributes of that "intelligence" are inferred from what we can find out about nature. So, we're back to looking at nature the only way we know how: via science. I don't think that implications about a possible intelligence change the way I do science or that I do science at all; it certainly doesn't change what we find out about evolution.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your post and for stating your point of view on the discussion of algorithms!

Knowing our different perspectives will surely improve our ability to communicate. We have much to share.