[MD] Evolution's new wrinkle:

[ml]

morning...

Bright and shiny...good job

thanks--mel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Glendinning" <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Evolution's new wrinkle:


> Hi KO, not sure I have exchanged anything with you before ?
> 
> Don't think I was saying what the emergent teleology is ... What it is
> is a drive for quality up through the evolving layers... I was talking
> about where the existence of a telos "appears" from.
> 
> Physical to Biological ? Not well understood ? Well not in a neat
> repeatable / demonstrable / provable way no, but plenty of credible
> mechanisms hypothesized, which fit with the other mechanisms of
> evolution, without calling on magical skyhooks for a leg up. Random
> mutation is just one aspect of those mechanisms ... there are more
> directed "good tricks" too ... like the one Marsha pointed out.
> 
> Ian
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