(November 14, 2014 at 10:59 pm)Esquilax Wrote: But why would it be impossible?
It can be due to logical limits. For example, consciousness is something entirely different then something non-conscious. There could be a structural gap, that no matter what small changes you add, it never heads in the direction of actual consciousness as opposed to a complicated non-conscious life form.
I believe this to be the case, and don't believe there is something in between conscious and non-conscious. This is because I believe being 1% conscious is still having consciousness, and that 1% consciousness requires a complex change.
I'm not entirely sure, but I would argue it's due to the fact there is nothing in between the two while it requires many steps of evolution and at the same time, at the end, because there is no in between, in needs one step at the same time. It being too complex for one step...makes it a paradox.
There is similar things in nature and macro evolution just believes you can always make it from point A to B.
But often in evolution, to get to A point to Point B, there is a point C or Point D that takes a different direction of evolution and then get's redirected to point B.
Whether it's really possible with all the co-existent parts in species, to always, due away with things and come up with new things...I've yet to see this proven as possible.
This is so far showing evolution is rationally possible, let, alone, if it actually happened.
