On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: >>> Evolution favours nothing. >>> >> >> >>That is incorrect. Evolution favors getting genes into the very next >> >>generation >> and Evolution favors absolutely positively NOTHING else. >> > > > By saying "favours" you are already attempting interpretation. >
Yes. Interpretation means making sense out of something that otherwise would make no sense, and that's what science is all about. > > The concept of "next generation", for example, is already a higher level > abstraction over a bunch of molecules interacting. > The "next generation" just means that something got duplicated, in this case genes. So if something is good at getting into the next generation it will outnumber something else that is not as good at doing that. And that's it, no intelligence or knowledge or wisdom or foresight is involved. > "Smart" is a feature of by-products of evolution. I'm not sure what > smart evolution could mean. If Evolution was smart it would realize that it is not a good idea to always settle for the local maximum; sometimes you need to step down from the mountain top you're on and go into the valley in order to get to a higher mountain than the one you're on, but Evolution doesn't understand that because Evolution is not smart. When Evolution goes mountain climbing ever single step it takes must increase, or at least not decrease, it's altitude, not even a little. Using that strategy you would NEVER get to the top of Mt Everest. John K Clark -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
