Evolution Sees!
- From: Tim Tyler <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:45:47 -0700 (PDT)
A recent essay:
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This essay deals with the supposed blindness of evolution.
To quote from its ending:
``So: 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 animals, 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 the product of choices by intelligent agents,
capable
of predicting the consquences of their actions - and are not - in
any
reasonable sense - solely the product of "blind" selective forces.''
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