RE: Why Something Rather Than Nothing?
October 23, 2014 at 11:15 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2014 at 11:20 pm by datc.)
(October 23, 2014 at 10:34 pm)Surgenator Wrote:Did I say evolution was random? Wtf? I explicitly pointed out that evolution involves a random process of mutations which is complemented with a deterministic process of natural selection.(October 23, 2014 at 9:10 pm)datc Wrote: Tell to the evolutionary process which, as some people have boldly asserted, has been able to solve a vast number of problems of building highly complex biomechanical systems in cells, organs, and the entire human body, with the help of trial-and-error random mutations (and natural selection).Here's the old evolution is a random process BS. Evolution is not random.
Even a blind watchmaker has some IQ.
Both randomness and necessity are individually necessary and jointly sufficient for evolution to proceed.
Random mutations provide the variations necessary to sort organisms into fit and unfit. The fit survive, and the unfit perish deterministically.
Quote:Our disagreement is your assertion that a random choice requires intelligence. From the definitions of intelligence and random, your assertion is wrong. I'm still waiting for a good counter to this.The bug in my example has been programmed whether by evolution or by something else to engage its RNG routines to escape from danger.
Randomness solves problems; hence it is low-level intelligence. It's an analogy.
Quote:Also, I can create a RNG that can pick a number from -infinity to infinitiy.Only if you have infinite computational resources.