>If it turns out the religious folks are right and humanity was a result of some grand cosmic designer

I am afraid you misunderstood. The designer is not some supreme being. In the context of my comment, the designer is a regular human. The term "designer" is not an absolute, it is a role. The designer is a human who devised a machine, algorithm, etc.

>We have adaptive code today

I am very well aware of that because I develop the algorithms. So I also know that while they are adaptive, their adaptability is limited within a closed system. The boundaries are implicitly set by the designer (ie. a programmer).

That sounds good.

Thanks for the questions you have good points. Please define what do you mean by "intelligence" and "artificial intelligence", and I will try to answer the questions. They are very challenging so it will be pleasure to think about it.

>Why does a designer matter at all?

The piece of code that has been programmed in let's say 1970 still works the same way as back then. Although the world and the technology changed very much, the code did not change its behavior. It does not have an ability to do so.

However, a human born around 1970 has changed their behavior significantly by its continuous adaptation to ever changing environment. Not only it adapt itself to the environment, but equally adapt the environment to their behavior.

That is roughly why the role of designer matters.

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I understand AI as a scientific discipline. "Artificial intelligence" is not the same as human intelligence but artificial. They are fundamentally different.

No, I do not think so. While there may be some level of abstraction at which we see similarities between the human body and the hardware of a computer system, there are fundamental differences that arise from their emergence.

A computer is a closed system of passive elements that were put together by an external intelligence. It is a composition of passive parts that somehow work together, because they were designed to do so. This is called nominal emergence.

In contrast, the human organism is an open and actively growing system that shapes all of its parts. This is called strong emergence. Organism was not put together by an external intelligence, it grew by itself thanks to its own intelligence. All its parts are actively shaping all the other parts. However, I would like to use a stronger word than a "part" because these parts cannot be simply taken out and replaced (like in the case of computers). Sorry, I do not know a better English word for it. But they are integral or essential to the whole organism. You cannot simply take out the "intelligence" from human's brain and replicate it, because the human intelligence resides in the entire organism, which goes even beyond the physical body.

While AI may exhibit stronger types of emergence, such as is seen in deep learning, these emergent properties are still local within the particular components of a closed system. It is possible to use technology to reproduce many parts of human intelligence and put them together, but they will still be fundamentally different due to the principles of how they emerged.

Please take a look in the emergence taxonomy by Fromm to get more nuanced differentiation: https://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin/0506028.pdf

something called Embodied cognition. human's cognition works through the whole organism, not only in the neocortex. your whole body shapes your thoughts. that is not the case of the software-hardware composition.

since we are at the philosophy sub, maybe extended mind thesis is relevant.

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