> [Pirsig summarizing Mayr] > "Evolution is recklessly opportunistic: it favors any variation that > provides a competitive advantage over other members of an organism's own > population or over individuals of different species. For billions of years > this process has automatically fueled what we call evolutionary progress. > No program controlled or directed this progression. It was the result of > spur of the moment decisions of natural selection."
DM: Is everything a matter of competition? Is this metaphor always the best one? Maybe variety is an explosion of excess. [Krimel] No, everything is not a matter of competition. This is part of what makes Chapter 11 such a disappointment. The value of the social level is its reliance on cooperation as a strategy for reproductive success. DM: Without limits like DNA to reduce excess and variety it seems that almost anything is possible. [Krimel] The flexibility, adaptability and universality of evolutionary theory the makes it both beautiful and desirable. DM: Is it all a tale or winners and losers, or is it a tale or what seems Valuable and desirable and what does not? [Krimel] Isn't winning valuable and desirable and losing, not? Sounds like the same tale to me. DM: I mean, is this not all metaphor? [Krimel] Is it all metaphor? I think not all but a lot of it is and Evolution is among the best we have. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
