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    Empirically, intelligence and power dissociate: brilliant... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A being might possess sufficient intelligence to conceive an optimal cosmic order while lacking the ontological power to actualize it from nothing, as Plato's Demiurge in the Timaeus is limited by the recalcitrance of pre-existing matter.

    Empirically, intelligence and power dissociate: brilliant architects face material constraints; mind alone cannot reshape physics.

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