(May 29, 2022 at 1:24 pm)Astreja Wrote:(May 29, 2022 at 6:55 am)chiknsld Wrote: This actually makes a lot of sense. Do you think its possible that evolution can apply to non-life as well. If evolution only applies to life (mutations only apply to life) do you think that is strange? Why would evolution under the guise of another process maybe -not apply to non-life as well? What makes you think that matter turns into life and only then does evolution begin? The universe is there in the beginning, matter is there in the beginning, so why cannot evolution be there in the beginning?
The main driver for evolution is change. Inasmuch as inanimate things can change, then something similar to biological evolution could occur.
For example, take technology: 100 years ago, music was available on 78 RPM records but those faded away as better methods of recording and distributing music were created. However, that kind of "evolution" doesn't happen within the musical medium itself - Records don't reproduce themselves.
At the point where matter becomes capable of self-replication, IMO it's crossing the boundary of non-life to life and then becomes subject to evolutionary pressures in its environment.
Ah, I think I understand. Evolution is merely a process that we attribute to life and there is no indication that evolution could ever apply to anything else.
