[MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Ron]
So Platt which is it? no higher intellegence sounds like dumb luck to me.

[Arlo]
It's pretty evident Platt's going for the two-fer. He WANTS theism, but he also
wants to DENY it. He can't explain it, which is why he can only make empty
claims "its in LILA". It isn't. At the same time denying Quality is theistic or
intelligent or planning, he purports a Quality that creates things, completely
removing the free dynamic response to DQ from the MOQ.

What Platt is unable to wrap his head around is that if there IS freedom
throughout the levels, then nothing was ever guaranteed. There was never any
certainty "man" would appear. As inorganic patterns did their own thing, and
biological patterns emerged (and were often destroyed), our "arrival" was never
anything but "chance". One lone solar flare placed just right, and the Earth
would've been inhabitable to biological patterns for eons, possibly for its
duration. I'd say that makes us pretty lucky to be here.

So Platt oscillates between some manner of orchestrating agent, a Qualigod of
sorts, that he'll deny when pressed, but every "attribute" he assigns to
Quality makes it a God.