?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Evolution+as+Algorithm&rft.creator=Dennett%2C+Daniel+C&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=John+Locke+offered+what+he+considered+a+sound+a+priori+argument+that+Mind+must+come+first%2C+must+be+the+original+Cause%2C+not+merely+an+Effect%3A+If%2C+then%2C+there+must+be+something+eternal%2C+let+us+see+what+sort+of+Being+it+must+be.+And+to+that+it+is+very+obvious+to+Reason%2C+that+it+must+necessarily+be+a+cogitative+Being.+For+it+is+as+impossible+to+conceive+that+ever+bare+incogitative+Matter+should+produce+a+thinking+intelligent+Being%2C+as+that+nothing+should+of+itself+produce+Matter.+Let+us+suppose+any+parcel+of+Matter+eternal%2C+great+or+small%2C+we+shall+find+it%2C+in+itself%2C+able+to+produce+nothing.+.+.+.+.+Matter+then%2C+by+its+own+strength%2C+cannot+produce+in+itself+so+much+as+Motion%3A+the+Motion+it+has%2C+must+also+be+from+Eternity%2C+or+else+be+produced%2C+and+added+to+Matter+by+some+other+Being+more+powerful+than+Matter.+.+.+.+But+let+us+suppose+Motion+eternal+too%3A+yet+Matter%2C+incogitative+Matter+and+Motion%2C+whatever+changes+it+might+produce+of+Figure+and+Bulk%2C+could+never+produce+Thought%3A+Knowledge+will+still+be+as+far+beyond+the+power+of+Motion+and+Matter+to+produce%2C+as+Matter+is+beyond+the+power+of+nothing+or+nonentity+to+produce.+And+I+appeal+to+everyone's+own+thoughts%2C+whether+he+cannot+as+easily+conceive+Matter+produced+by+nothing%2C+as+Thought+produced+by+pure+Matter%2C+when+before+there+was+no+such+thing+as+Thought%2C+or+an+intelligent+Being+existing.+.+.+.+So+if+we+will+suppose+nothing+first%2C+or+eternal%3A+Matter+can+never+begin+to+be%3A+If+we+suppose+bare+Matter%2C+without+Motion%2C+eternal%3A+Motion+can+never+being+to+be%3A+If+we+suppose+only+Matter+and+Motion+first%2C+or+eternal%3A+Thought+can+never+begin+to+be.+For+it+is+impossible+to+conceive+that+Matter+either+with+or+without+Motion+could+have+originally+in+and+from+itself+Sense%2C+Perception+and+Knowledge%2C+as+is+evident+from+hence%2C+that+then+Sense%2C+Perception%2C+and+Knowledge+must+be+a+property+eternally+inseparable+from+Matter+and+every+particle+of+it.&rft.publisher=Addison-Wesley&rft.contributor=Singer%2C+Harold+Morowitz+and+Jerome&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F283%2F1%2Fevolinsu.htm&rft.identifier=++Dennett%2C+Daniel+C++(1995)+Evolution+as+Algorithm.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F283%2F