Re: Life's direction

From: John Edser (edser_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:29:27 +0000 (UTC)

> TT:-
> Here's an essay I wrote recently about life's direction.
>
> http://originoflife.net/direction/
>
> In it I argume that the notion that evoultion is a directionless process
> whose direction at any time is contingent on envrionmental conditions is
> nonsense.
>
> That notion fails to consider the possibilty that there are systematic
> regularities in the environment. Such regularities do exist - and they
> provdide a definite direction to the evolutionary process in nature.

PF:-
I know at least three key explanatory subcategories of evolutionary
pressures that can help us to exploit this fact -- i.e., that such and still
more complex regularities do exist. ;-)

JE:-
So called "explanatory subcategories of evolutionary
pressures" do not exist, as such. What exists are
explanatory subcategories of selectee _responses_.
Because all selectees are unique, they can respond
differently to the same pressures. Thus categorising
selective pressure makes no sense. Selectee responses
are active and not just passive. Within the
non living world responses are mostly passive and
predictable because energy is not always imported at
net profit into the system over the life of that
system. Life always has an energy
bank account that is in the black. When it is
in the red you are dead. This account is used
to tailor selectee responses to evolutionary
pressures that suit each selectee, at that time.
If you wish to categorize these responses then I
agree, such an endeavour has real worth. However,
these responses must be limited by each species
type.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edser@tpg.com.au

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