An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by David Turell @, Sunday, August 31, 2014, 16:28 (3498 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> > David: I know programs can only do what they are set to do.But that does not exclude God from putting future plans into the genome for later action. This is what I meant by an inventive mechanism.
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> Tony: I guess it is the word "inventive" that throws me. Inventive to me means creating something new, an increase in the available information.-Your point is the fact dhw always misses. A new activity, a new ability, a new form in evolution always requires additional new information to support the change. I'm simply saying the information is already there to be tapped when needed. That gives me pre-planning, a concept I've always preferred over dabbling. And the program techniques you have described (polymorphism created by classes in programs) helps me understand the enormous diversity in life, the bushiness.


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