Glen, Because that's how evolution works? Development constrains the exploration space of evolution, and evolution would not be so sucessful if it did not. Epigenesis, man. Epigenesis.
(};-]) (winking guy with big eyebrows and a smug smile) Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > [Original Message] > From: glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 2/10/2010 12:10:43 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Buzz arrives > > Thus spake Steve Smith circa 10-02-10 10:54 AM: > >> And that is? Can you describe "that very same road"? I'm serious. > >> As far as I can see its near-random. > > I thought we would have learned from biology that successful strategies > involve a large sampling of the possibilities. So, it's not the > seemingly random sampling Google's doing that befuddles me. That seems > totally rational, even if it is random. What confuses me is why humans > insist that various processes (from biological pathways to organisms to > corporations) always must have some single teleologically constricted > purpose. Why does everything always have to boil down to some > pigeon-holed agenda? Why do we have to divine THE cause, THE goal, THE > motivation? Why can't it be complex? > > And I'm serious, here, too. I can't tell you how often I get completely > baffled looks when I describe what Tempus Dictum does. Those linear > thinkers who seem to dominate investment forums immediately write me off > and stress that if a business doesn't FOCUS, it will surely fail. I > make some attempts to describe breadth-first search and the surprising > efficacy of large variance sampling; but I always fail in that > description. [grin] > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
