[MD] Systems Philosopher: Evolution Presupposes Design

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha suggested]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ervin-laszlo/evolution-presupposes-des_b_537507.html 


[From the article]
Could it be that our universe has been purposefully designed so it 
could give rise to the evolution of life?

[Arlo]
If this were so, you would think the universe would be overflowing 
with observable life. No? I admit our ability to peer into deep space 
is somewhat rudimentary, but if this hypothesis is true, one would 
think the signs of life would be more readily visible.

I do, btw, think there must be life elsewhere in the cosmos. But if 
the universe was designed to foster the emergence of life, it seems 
to be a pretty poor implementation job.

[Also from the article]
The wave unfolded in the cosmos by structuring particles into atoms, 
atoms into molecules, molecules into macromolecules and cells, cells 
into organisms, and organisms and populations of organisms into 
local, regional, and continental ecologies.

[Arlo]
Sounds MOQish, but I find very problematic the notion that patterns 
were arranged by some external agent's bidding, rather than their own 
volitional responses to Dynamic Quality. In this sense, nothing 
responds to DQ, things are merely moved around like pieces on a 
chessboard by DQ's hand. We are, then, simply pawns in a 
supermarionation program orchestrated by an external "force", rather 
than agenic patterns able to respond to Dynamic Quality.

In other words, patterns are not "built", they emerge from the 
activity of Quality responses of the pattern to its environment.