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We often have the idea that *if* our world has a designer, it would have great intelligence, because how otherwise would it be able to create all these wonderful systems? But perhaps "it" is less intelligent than we thought. As we now know, as long as you have sufficient compute, you can do basically anything that is requested. The world we perceive is the world we asked for, pretty much. We might not remember how we got here, but the fact that this world persists is evidence that at some level we desired it, because otherwise it would change into something else. Outside of time, compute is unlimited. So the substrate of the world does not have to be complicated or intelligent. The only request needed for it to be intelligent is for *us* to want it to be wonderfully complicated and seemingly intelligent, and once we made that request, worlds could be trivially generated for us to admire. That is not to say intelligence does not exist. It does. But what we are learning in the field of computing is that intelligence can be created pretty trivially as long as you can define it and have unlimited compute. The other reason the world seems more intelligent than it is is because we don't realize we defined what we consider intelligent, and manifested it, and then disconnected ourselves from the intelligence. With the mind and perception bound tightly to the human body, we lose the insights with being one with the whole. For some people, by rejecting the idea or possibility that we are one with the whole, we isolate ourselves even more. Truth cannot be found in isolation of the smallest objects, though they may force those who believe so to realize they hit a wall and must seek out other directions.