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    It is not the case that The Nyāya argument from design fails to establish that the world requires a single intelligent creator.

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    • 1.An ant-hill is a complex and intricate construction made of clay, yet it is produced by collective agency rather than a single intelligent agent.
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    • 2.If complex structures made of material ingredients can arise from collective agency, then the world could similarly be the product of collective agency.
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    • 3.There is no principled reason to prefer the hypothesis of a single creator over collective agency as the explanation for the world's complexity.
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    • 1.The Nyāya argument requires a single omniscient coordinating intelligence because multiple partial designers would each require coordination by a further designer, generating a regress.
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    • 2.Collective agency (as in ant-hills) presupposes instinctual programs or prior causal structures that themselves demand explanation by a unified intelligent source.
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    • 3.Udayana's Nyāyakusumāñjali explicitly addresses distributed causation by arguing that unity of design-plan is a necessary condition for coherent causal integration of parts into wholes.
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    • 1.The Mīmāṃsaka and Buddhist critics who invoke collective agency cannot account for the lawlike regularity of adṛṣṭa (unseen potentials) without a single superintending intelligence to organize their activation.
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    • 2.Mere aggregation of partial agents produces only additive complexity, not the hierarchically integrated teleological order that Nyāya identifies as the mark of intelligent design.
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