Re: Evolution Sees!
- From: j.wilkins1@xxxxxxxxx (John Wilkins)
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:28:18 +1000
Tim Tyler <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A recent essay:
--> http://alife.co.uk/essays/evolution_sees/ <--
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.''
I wouldn't take that site seriously. It's an ID front.
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
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