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Breaking down the statement into its hidden assumptions


  • Intelligence
    1. "Sufficient" is a term that may imply a graduated scale (or even continuum) of intelligence
    2. Means intelligence itself increases the ability for an acting agent to create a universe in such and such way.
  • Power
    1. "Sufficent" again a term that implies a graduated scale or continuum
    2. Means that increasing an acting agents power increases creative ability.
    3. Essentially this assumes intelligence and power are prerequisites for creating a universe.


I have several problems with this:


(1) A basic assumption of your propositions set intelligence and power as a prerequisite for creating a universe in a particular way. 

(2) But then your proposition states the two cases mentioned as scientifically indistinguishable.


(3) Now I assert that your premise "...the two cases are scientifically indistinguishable " is contradictory to the unmentioned assumption (1) -- such an experiment would require the very bases and assumptions that undermine its relevance.


So based on your own statements I cannot accept the conclusion.


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