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I maintain that it takes utter foolishness to not acknowledge the screaming intelligent design behind nature. Seldom does it get clearer than when we as informa
by samuell 9y ago
I maintain that it takes utter foolishness to not acknowledge the screaming intelligent design behind nature. Seldom does it get clearer than when we as information systems designers study the information systems in nature, and find basically all our "inventions" all there already, in an uber-elegant, uber-effective, uber-smart version.
Heck, even the TCP/IP protocol has its counterpart with the addresstags (post translational modifications), for sorting in the biological router called "golgi apparatus" [1].
We never observed a process creating these structures that doesn't start from already existing such structures, and it's not like we see these structures popping up spontaneously everywhere in the universe. No, we didn't find them elsewhere than on this very planet, out of the hundreds we can observe.
The combination of such ingenuity on every level -- physical and abstract -- with such an astonishing beauty and such purposefullness, also on every level, makes me cringe when the cred for all of this is given to this unobserved idea of evolution .
No, I'm not talking about the changes we do observe in nature today which also go under this term, but on the origin of these solutions and structures.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_apparatus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_apparatus
- Terr_ 9y agoOr maybe you've got the causality backwards: We humans are the results of a designer-less stochastic evolution, and we internalize its operating principles, which come back out again when we look for "intelligence". In other words, it's the anthropic principle again: If the universe operated differently, and different patterns were evolved and led to us, then we would consider different patterns to look intelligent.
- samuell 9y ago... and then trust that this designer- and intention-less stochastic, random, evolution brought us brains that tell us the ultimate truth? Given the heavy biases of the anthropic principle, odds don't look good (... when we can't take back on some intentionality towards anything, behind anything).
- vinchuco 9y agoThat's unscientific. The best explanation (imo) of what I mean: https://youtu.be/ztmvtKLuR7I https://youtu.be/ztmvtKLuR7I