Convergence; Simon Conway Morris Teleology (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, June 12, 2016, 22:50 (2878 days ago) @ dhw

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> DAVID: Not if it seems it would be an easy road to the h-p bush. Survivability and complexity fit the pattern of evolution.
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> dhw: Of course they do. But the complexities have to work! I suggest that the “easy road to the h-p bush” is brought about by individual organisms complexifying for a purpose (survival or the chance to find a better way of surviving), not complexifying just to make themselves more complex. - IF the cells have the intelligence to do that, a huge if. - > DAVID: The only observation is the enormous complexity which has been created by evolution and requires exquisite planning.
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> dhw: Every innovation requires “exquisite planning”, and all our hypotheses are an attempt to explain how the planning takes place. We have observed cells and cell communities adapting to changing conditions, communicating, cooperating, solving problems (“external observations”), but nobody has observed a computer programme of on-board instructions for all innovations, or a God personally intervening to deliver new instructions. - Another big IF. Exquisite planning requires an exquisite mind. God supplies the necessary mind.