Re: What's more important, self-organzation or evolution?


Raving wrote:
On Jul 29, 8:48 am, Ernest Major <{$t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
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On Jul 28, 1:40 am, j.wilki...@xxxxxxxxx (John Wilkins) wrote:
dkomo <dkomo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One question about evolution is to what extent the path of evolution is
constrained by the nature of the connectivity of the space of viable
genomes - if we ran the last billion years of evolution again with
slightly different initial conditions would the results be greatly
different, as per Gould, or much the same, as per Conway Morris.
Does it matter? Is this important? Does it make any difference?

... As is one-is-as-good-as-another.

By finding a way of calling the possibilities 'equivalent', the
'Direction of evolution' is ...

... hypothesized - explained - described


From the question we get the follow on question about the degree to
which the path of evolution is constrained by the variety of forms of
self-organisation available - if the forms of self-organisation are many
and densely and evenly spaced then the constraints they impose are
limited; if they are few, and unevenly spaced then the path of evolution
is constrained to follow routes allowed by the limited forms of
self-organisation available. The question "What's more important,
self-organization or evolution?" could be read as relating to this
issue.
Interesting oversight.
Percolation theory.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_theory for example.

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