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I wonder how much further along we will get creating human-like intelligences until Occam's razor suggests that the (in evolutionary scale) sudden emergence of human intelligence ~20,000 years ago was the result of the efforts of an intelligent force

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Human intelligence arose slowly, over multiple species adaptions, and much longer ago than 20,000 years. For example, cooking predates modern humans[1] by at least hundreds of thousands of years.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking#History

I’m not sure you understand Occam’s Razor. What you are proposing is absolutely not the simplest explanation.

Why not? Whatever your bayesian priors are, they certainly don't match mine.

Please provide a simpler explanation than “species begins eating calorically dense food, increasing brain size, and becoming smarter”. Your supposedly simpler explanation must involve an unknown outside intelligence of some kind. I’ll wait.

Because it begs the question, do you have intelligent beings designing intelligent beings all the way down? An infinite regression of writers writing writers?

No, you just have one God who created everything and has always existed.

Who created God then? And if not, how does that square with anything observable in the universe? Energy and matter don’t come from nothing.

Presumably "God" was always there, like matter and energy and information.

At least that is the classical and accepted notion of "God" since antiquity.

This is one of the biggest mistakes in reasoning people make, they come up with fantastic explanations that require fantastic explanations, solving nothing. People like you are really INTERESTING.

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