At TSZ, Elizabeth Liddle asks IDists what the “energy source” is for a designer to move matter in some specific manner?  One wonders what EL is talking about – what is the energy source for any human designer to generate intentional outcomes, like picking up tools and building a house?  The energy used is the same energy kind that is used as any physical process that occurs.  The difference between intentional outcomes and unintentional outcomes is not that a different kind of energy is used, but rather that the energy was used intentionally. Instead of the process being guided by what would be predicted by natural law or a stochastic process (unintentional), intentional activity is not plausibly derivable from those … Continue reading Intention As A Physical Law or Force