Re: electric meme bombs

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat 02 Nov 2002 - 19:56:49 GMT

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    > > No, evolution tends to favor progressively more complex and
    > > elaborated systems, which permit a wider range of possible
    > > alternatives to the organism, and thus increase the likelihood that
    > > it will survive to reproduce. Not from singular to multiplicity,
    > > but from less complex to more complex system.
    >
    > That is what I imply ! But my catch is to say that the process from
    > less complex to more complex is an evolutionary adaptation, not a
    > physical law of nature ! The notion of tendency leads to a somewhat
    > obscure path of goal- intented behavior, where IMO there is none.
    > Tendency is religious related, dependent of an unknown force... I don
    > 't like that ! But that wasn 't the thing you said I suppose !
    >
    I agree that the process is an evolutionarily adaptive one.
    >
    > Kenneth
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