On 19 September 2014 05:26, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/18/2014 7:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > 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. > > > Then you reject Darwinian evolution. >
I don't think a genome has a goal. It is simply set up by natural selection so that it does, in fact, act in a manner that is likely to lead it to be reproduced. But a goal implies some plan or thought. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
