[luckyme]

I'm trying to follow this exchange and seem to be reading a mixture of two different concepts ( or I'm just missing the points as OR suggests :-)

Those familiar with Dennetts work may see the jumping between the design stance and the physical stance.

To use the computer pi example. It appears to be coming from a program "designed" to produce pi and that is the OR position.
It doesn't matter whether the program is running on strung together rice crispies or a Cray and will one day be subject to mice gnawing on key parts and muck up the output.
To mix the claim about the programs output, which is the level OR is dealing with in this example with the physical makeup of what the program is running on is shifting to a different topic altogether.
That level would apply if OR was making a statement about the physical structure of the system producing the output.

that's the best I can to to explain my confusion,

hope there is help out there, luckyme