[MD] Chance

[Krimel]

> [Pirsig summarizing Mayr]
> "Evolution is recklessly opportunistic: it favors any variation that
> provides a competitive advantage over other members of an organism's own
> population or over individuals of different species. For billions of years
> this process has automatically fueled what we call evolutionary progress. 
> No program controlled or directed this progression. It was the result of 
> spur of the moment decisions of natural selection."

DM: 
Is everything a matter of competition? Is this metaphor always the best
one? Maybe variety is an explosion of excess. 

[Krimel]
No, everything is not a matter of competition. This is part of what makes
Chapter 11 such a disappointment. The value of the social level is its
reliance on cooperation as a strategy for reproductive success. 

DM:
Without limits like DNA to reduce excess and variety it seems that almost
anything is possible.

[Krimel]
The flexibility, adaptability and universality of evolutionary theory the
makes it both beautiful and desirable. 

DM:
Is it all a tale or winners and losers, or is it a tale or what seems 
Valuable and desirable and what does not?

[Krimel]
Isn't winning valuable and desirable and losing, not? Sounds like the same
tale to me.

DM:
I mean, is this not all metaphor?

[Krimel]
Is it all metaphor? I think not all but a lot of it is and Evolution is
among the best we have.