I had the same problem. My comment:<p>---<p>&quot;The crucial assumption is that the abstract program, as a mathematical object, requires design and therefore intent. Accordingly, only artificial things can compute. We cannot say, for example, that a brain computes.&quot;<p>I would argue that living things represent the spontaneous emergence of teleology in nature (i.e., evolution doesn&#x27;t itself have a goal but it implies the greater success of creatures which <i>do</i> have goals). Brains evolved to help organisms survive and reproduce by allowing them to better process sensory data. So brains were &quot;designed&quot; for an &quot;intent&quot; (survival&#x2F;reproduction), in the sense that brains that did not serve the intent died out.