Folks,
On issue that I don't think Christophe deals with adequately in his
otherwise excellent post is that the organization of life is
hierarchical, and can therefore lead to conflicts between levels. For
example, reproduction and heredity are important to life, so linage
extinction resistance
Yes John,
there can be conflicts between levels in the organization of
life.
Ex: the “stay alive” constraint applies to individual and to species, and there
can be
some conflicts:
The satisfaction of
individual constraints can become incompatible with the satisfaction of species
constraints.
