On 17 Sep 2014, at 23:10, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/17/2014 6:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
That does not follow, as thermostat are not universal, and in
particular have no universal goal, like do anything to surivive,
like amoeba and most animals and plants, which are Turing
universal, and have that universal goal.
If you refer consciousness to a universal goal, the goal of the
genome is to reproduce.
I don't know that. Perahps that is true for the first genome, but the
goal seems more like "to reproduce in a complex environement, which
will indeed need that universality.
In fact you could even say that individual genes have a goal of
reproducing, increasing in number, even at the expense of other
genes on the same genome.
There is obviously some cooperation too. Even some sacrifices.
Bruno
Brent
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