RE: What is evidence?
October 4, 2016 at 1:17 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2016 at 1:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 4, 2016 at 1:11 am)Arkilogue Wrote:This appears to be a long refutation of your original claim. If "complexity" as you;ve defined it is the direction, except evolution can go the opposite direction..in what sense is "complexity" the direction of evolution, again?(October 4, 2016 at 12:52 am)Rhythm Wrote: Sensory junkie thinks sensory is the bar, no surprise. I see we've already added a caveat....seems to be a massive one, given the frequency with which environmental constraints present "severe interruption". Sensory this and thats are the direction, so long as nothing bad happens to them? Everything is the direction, so long as nothing bad happens to it. This is a rule or path that leads nowhere in specific, and everywhere in general. It's also, again... demonstrably, untrue. Evolution does not have a direction, and no trait is exclusively advantageous.It (DNA) has every possible direction allowed for it to gain information and master it's environment, until reproductive possibility is eclipsed by environmental destabilization. DNA expression can even go "backwards" if it can re-adapt. I evolution in terms of the physical molecule of DNA in action through time.
The only reason you can be fooled, for example..is your "complexity". An epidemic of credulity could off you, which I doubt would effect an ameoba.
What, then, informs you of the specific direction of evolutionary development, and that this specific direction is the "complexity" which you have defined?
Quote:The human animal informs me of a preferred direction in DNA development. We have great power to manipulate our environment and we do it towards the preservation of our species over time. The same thrust of Life can be found in the greater complexity/gain of civilization over time. The same can be experienced personal as the maturation of consciousness from child to adult.I bet the dinosaurs thought they were hot shit too, for whatever they saw in themselves and defined as their "complexity". Or, at least, they would have, if they werent so damned inhumanly dumb. I;m not really sure that the biological complexity of an orgaqnism (however it;s defined) has much to say about the relative successes and failures of groups of the same organisms. The civilizations that succeed don't do so because they, or their inhabitants, are "more complex" than other human beings or civilizations..but at least you're tripling down on the crazy while simultaneously arguing against it.
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