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Most cost-efficient for what purpose?

• imtringued 9y ago
  Increase entropy.
  • fwdpropaganda 9y ago
    No one has the purpose of increasing entropy. And you're not the person I was asking anyway.
• vanderZwan 9y ago
  For change and adaptation to new contexts. Unless you know of a way to turn an elephant into a fly and back. I mean that literally. For battling decay. It can be easier to grow a new body from a single cell, than to keep patching up a running one. A desire for immortality is the individual point of view. In the big picture of things, there is little to no selection pressure for immortality. There is plenty of selection pressure for adaptation and change, and death and rebirth are effective tools for that.
  • majewsky 9y ago
    > For battling decay. It can be easier to grow a new body from a single cell, than to keep patching up a running one. And we do the same in IT. Sometimes the old system has piled on so many hotfixes and customizations that in order to upgrade, you can only build up a new system next to it and transfer your data to it. Then you shutdown the new system. That's procreation, learning, and death.
    • vanderZwan 9y ago
      That's my line of thought too: look closely and see indirect empirical evidence of this happening in all kinds of other systems. Life is no different.
  • fwdpropaganda 9y ago
    > A desire for immortality is the individual point of view. In the big picture of things, there is little to no selection pressure for immortality. There is plenty of selection pressure for adaptation and change, and death and rebirth are effective tools for that. Yes there is... an individual that does not age will have many more offspring than one that does.