(December 15, 2017 at 8:59 pm)Starhunter Wrote:(December 15, 2017 at 6:14 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Why?
Also, biology doesn't do machinations.
I accept for arguments sake that biology is free of purposeful action.
Which puts biology about on the same level as a machine doesn't it?
Biology doesn't think or feel or plan; it just does what it does, repeatably and predictably. In that sense it's akin to machinery.
Biological organisms, on the other hand, are far more than merely the sum of their parts. Life, and whatever purpose the individual derives from it, is an emergent property, not an externally assigned one. Even if you insist that it is such, the onus is on you at least to propose where it is imposed, at what point in the organism's gestation, and more importantly why; since there is no necessity.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
