His creatures are interactive with other machines, commencing with simple patterns of behaviour and evolving to more complex ones.
Sightings of man-like creatures that continued to be reported, by both sailors and fishermen, fuelled the many folk legends that developed.
After all, such beings would want their creatures to know all sorts of things about them.
Of two creatures in nature it is the one with a more truthful and reliable picture of the world that survives and propagates its genes.
What understanding of the creature's causal contribution will allow us to maintain that such theories really are co-operative ?
I see no reason to suppose that an omnipotent creator would be unable to produce creatures like these.
Such creatures would be ' perfectly reasonable ' in the sense that they could never be weak-willed in their pursuit of the good.
The alleged incoherence thus consists in being committed to holding that creatures are both continuants and non-continuants.
