Natures spiritual intentions.

If we admit that nature created us without ensuring our earthly survival can it be imbued with a spiritual intention? I think we all must admit with the vastness of the universe, us or similar creatures like us will attain a spiritual need to understand ourselves and what formed us. Is this spirituality a simple result of our conscious ability or is it part of the determined effort nature created? It serves no purpose so why has nature found it a necessary part of our human ability? It indicates that there must be similar beasts such as us looking out from their solar systems with similar feelings and desires to find us just like we need them. This spirituality has to be a result of a determined effort by nature, so is nature carrying out an order or is it the master?

[Scott]

These questions and implied inferences seem to be fallaciously treating the metaphorical personification of nature as literal.

Can you literally define the word nature as you are using it?

Hi, Xris,

I think that you could profit from reading about Daniel Dennett's distinction between the "physical stance," the "design stance," and the "intentional stance."

First, read this: http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/int ... ystems.pdf

Then reformulate your question thus: In what contexts, if any, is it necessary to analyze the universe from the intentional stance?

What you are asking me is the very question I am asking. If nature can and will determine a spiritual desire in its creation has nature itself a spiritual determination. If we engineered a computer that started questioning its own origin, would that conscious ability be our ability in the design or might it be a natural evolution within the structure of that particular computer? Is it determined or can we simple discount it as an amazing random event ?