Re: Replicating What?

From: Tim Tyler (tim_at_tt1lock.org)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:22:41 +0000 (UTC)

Guy Hoelzer <hoelzer@unr.edu> wrote or quoted:

> If you find my view to be implausible, then I would ask you why natural
> selection would result in the unnecessary encoding of information in the
> genome, which would be relatively inflexible in the face of unpredictable
> environmental variation, when it would be far more efficient to take
> advantage of the opportunities for automatic information generation through
> physical tendencies for self-organization? I expect that fighting those
> tendencies through rigid and expansive genomic encoding would be highly
> maladaptive.

When nature builds things in, the things is builds in are usually not
strongly dependent on the environment.

It builds them in because there are costs associated with the flexibility
of learning things after birth.

The trial-and-error process involved in learning can be time consuming -
and mistakes made while it is occurring can be expensive. 

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