Nick, Whenever we discussed your Natural Design Perspective over the last 15 years, I've tried to form a bridge toward Complexity, Self-Organization, Least Action, and related ideas. From your Natural Design Wikipedia entry <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_design>:
Natural design is design-without-a-designer, in the same sense that natural selection is selection-without-a-selector. Design is a term we use to refer to a matching of form and function, and we can recognize the presence of design independently of the cause of that design *Can we say a hurricane is a naturally designed form that matches the function of dissipating a temperature gradient?* In this case mass density and angular momentum break symmetry and become structured as a "design". As you know, I've asked this question countless times, but can't recall your answer. I am trying to open the door to design that doesn't presuppose natural and sexual selection as the assumed mechanism of biological design. On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 11:39 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been wondering all week why none of you have sent me insults about > the text below. It appears that ONE of the reasons may be that I never > sent it to you. Well, now is your chance. From the natural design > perspective, design is a property of things, not of minds that make > things. The perspective asserts that a thing is experienced as designed > when it is one of an array of things existing in an array of environments, > such that there is a systematic relation between things and environments. > Against the background of such systematic relations, it becomes possible > to say that this particular thing is well-designed for this particular > environment. Over the years, we have used many different examples to > illustrate this principle. >
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