Hi Krimel You mention the difference between plans and being able to carry them out and then immediately ignore the key distinction completely. When I refer to the possible I am referring to what is available to bring about otherwise I would call it the impossible. Of course our plans cannot easily distinguish them but reality has no such problem!
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krimel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Heads or tails? [Krimel] The problem is that fitness or betterness can really only be determined after the fact. To then claim they are the driving force is naïve. DM: Yet without hindsight all this has been created and do we not have to live our lives without such back-sight? What do we mean by intelligence other than making a good choice between our options? We judge the possible and select what will become actual and what is left unactualised. [Krimel] And there seems to be an enormous selective advantage in being able to do that. But being able to make plans is not the same as being able to execute them and it by no means guarantees that the right plans will be executed. Or models of the future are critical for our species but they are fantasies spun from our past experience not visions beamed in from the future. For us it is all about memory and modeling. We judge the past and we gamble on the future. 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/ 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/
