[Fester Chugabrew]

The designer could be God, collective consciousness, or aliens.

All of the intelligent entities you mention here explicitly denote personhood. Is that a logical, or ontological, necessity where intelligent design is concerned?

[AntiGuv]

All of the intelligent entities you mention here explicitly denote personhood. Is that a logical, or ontological, necessity where intelligent design is concerned?

Yes. Intelligent design requires intelligence, and intelligence requires an entity to express it.........

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your question!

me: The designer could be God, collective consciousness, or aliens.

you: All of the intelligent entities you mention here explicitly denote personhood. Is that a logical, or ontological, necessity where intelligent design is concerned?

A collective consciousness is not a person but an overarching "force" or "field" in the universe which causes it to become more than the sum of its parts.

In a metaphysical naturalist (atheist) worldview this could be seen as a cumulative, overarching epiphenomenon of the physical "brains" contained within space/time.

In a theistic worldview this could be seen as a mediating "field" between God - or "beyond" space/time - and that which is corporeal within space/time. Plato might have called it the "metaxy".