RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 23, 2015 at 4:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 4:04 pm by Heywood.)
(January 22, 2015 at 9:44 pm)Rhythm Wrote: "Things made by humans require the involvement of humans"
- "no shit".
I started to look for evolutionary systems which are not the result of human intellect but rather animal intellect. I can't think of any systems which animal intellects implement. However, animals do use evolution. A squirrel uses evolution to work around the obstacles placed before it to prevent it from robbing bird feeders. It does this by making repeated attempts at the course(replication). Its memory is the heritable characteristic. In each attempt it strategy changes a bit(change). It rejects changes which don't further the goal(selection).
This squirrel had to make many attempts to solve this obstacle course: