[MD] Heads or tails?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> [Krimel]
> As you well know discussing evolution with Platt is likely to make you want
> to scream out "I wanna be sedated!" 

Given a choice between Case's views of evolution and Pirsig's, I'll take
Pirsig's any day, no matter how loud the screams:

"'Survival of the fittest' is meaningful only when 'fittest' is equated with 'best,'
which is to say, 'Quality.' And the Darwinians don't mean just any old quality, they
mean undefined Quality! As Mayr's article makes clear, they are absolutely certain
there is no way to define what that 'fittest' is. Good! The 'undefined fittest'they
are defending is identical to Dynamic Quality. Natural selection is Dynamic Quality
at work." (Lila, 11)  



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