Re: Evidence for the Laws of Intelligence

On 08 Sep 2007 17:45:49 GMT, none@xxxxxx (Eric Rowley) wrote:

From: Zoe <muze10@xxxxxxx>:

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I know, in the past, there were objections to the above. But
would you please kindly repeat them so I can chew on them while
I have some time and energy to do so at the moment?

1: Confusing evolution with a purely random process and therefore
mistakenly concluding that it can only produce disorder!

before it can select, natural selection must depend on whatever
"beneficial" random changes occur. Therefore, natural selection is
governed by random activity. Unless you think that natural selection
has a template for the millions of species on earth so that when a
mutation randomly occurs, it recognizes the value of such a change and
preserves it, while waiting for the next "perfect fit" to chance
along? I doubt you view natural selection in this light, in which
case, you are back to a selection process that proceeds willy-nilly,
and at the mercy of random changes.

2: Your examples of "Base-line synergy" are no such thing (with the
possible exception of the balloon), since there are other ways for
the systems to come about besides the parts comeing together in
their "finished" forms with no previous "synergy".

For instance, both the chicken/egg system and the seed/tree system
could have come about by gradual development from organisms
reproducing by budding or splitting, gradually differentiating into
a gamate "generation" and a somatic "generation".

for too long textbooks have been making statements like these, without
supporting evidence. Please for the steps in this budding and/or
splitting.

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