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To: Quester
Two necessarily enabled people (or even one such person) can gather the necessary resources for production and rely upon their own store of productive intelligence to produce a computer.

No. For your analogy to work, two computers would need to be doing the reproduction -- each contributing to the final product. Bringing people into the picture introduces a third party that is not present in nature (unless you think God pops in and zaps new critters into existence inside their mothers, which would make Jesus entirely ununique).

191 posted on 01/29/2002 8:38:32 AM PST by Junior
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To: Junior
Bringing people into the picture introduces a third party that is not present in nature.

... unless that third party is the one who originally encoded the codes for reproduction into the organism.

For, instance, ... if you asked me to feed your dog for a week while you were on vacation, ... and gave me the keys to your house to do so ... and, in so doing, I observe that one of your living-room lamps comes on every evening at 6:00 p.m., ... even though I see noone flipping the switch, ... rationally (our initial point of discussion), ... I would surmise that YOU had encoded this function into your living-room lighting system, ... rather than think that this functionality arose without any intelligence being involved.

192 posted on 01/29/2002 9:00:47 AM PST by Quester
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