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From: Wade T. Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> >Now you are saying that Lamarckism equals creativity !?
> Design is lamarckian- although I'd prefer to say that lamarckianism uses
> design as a force, which is its mistake.
> Design is goal oriented. Evolution is blind to the future.
> Design involves patterns. Evolution is chaotic.
Hi Wade,
Like I said in an earlier post you can round this up by calculating
asymmetry
into your equations.
What follows is highly hypothetical.
The evolution of any aspect of culture is the sum of 2 effects_A/ the amount
of individuals, which were infected by the change at one point in time, and
B/ to the amounts of interactions and their effects due to what kind of
action
taken by those individuals at that particular moment in time.
The problem lies NOT in how we can calculate the number of people
infected, I suppose we can do that, more preciser will be needed though,
to calculate the " effect " of all interactions possible.
But there you have a problem, Dawinian natural selection selects for the
best, the better, the more fit, the fittest. All kinds of possible effects/
out-
comes will have disapeared.
Two lines emerge, 1_ natural selection which states that certain lines will
eventually reach their end, whatever that might be. Nature " prefers " such
lines above others.
2_ an obscur system by which nature have no preference for what begins
and how it will end.
Such a split- like look at things has constructive aspects, now you can
calculate a difference between the amount of useful info which is used in
order to select and how big the amount of info is which leaks away in
order to give sufficient support for the selection process itself.
Such an ( cultural/ social !?) entropy increases in the case you let the
process of natural selection loose on the second_ more and more things
will leak away_ selection pressures will increase all the time.
Such an entropy increase acts as an " arrow of time " ( Eddington), and
in you case, Wade, is that the future !
Don 't misunderstand me, this is just a mindgame.
I could be wrong all the way !
Regards,
Kenneth
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