Re: Evolution sees!
- From: "Entertained by my own EIMC" <decoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:52:00 -0400 (EDT)
"Tim Tyler" <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A recent essay:
http://alife.co.uk/essays/evolution_sees/
This essay deals with the supposed blindness of evolution.
To quote from its ending:
``Evolution is not blind. Brains and sexual selection
introduced intelligence into the selection process.
Engineering introduced intelligence into the process
responsible for the production of variation.
Evolution was blind in the beginning. Back then, the
metaphor of a blind idiot god would have been an
appropriate one. However, as with the development of
animals, it has it has gradually acquired the power of sight.
With the origin of brains, evolution turned into a kind of
cyclops god with partial vision. Now, with the origin of
engineers, evolution can now see even more clearly.
To think of the process of evolution as a blind
process is an impoverished view, which represents a
fundamental misconception of its character.
Human beings are largely the product of choices by
intelligent agents, capable of predicting the
consquences of their actions, and are not - in any
reasonable sense - the product of "blind" selective
forces.''
One of my main "EPT points" - perhaps both the 'mainest' and the
inevitatably meanest - is, that:
Evolution is, at least as far as it has produced us humans, still largely
(almost completely) blind.
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