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Evolution doesn't have a goal though, evolution is more like maintenance and jerry rigging than it is engineering.
by faceplanted 7y ago
Evolution doesn't have a goal though, evolution is more like maintenance and jerry rigging than it is engineering.
- tiborsaas 7y agoIf obeying thermodynamics count, then it counts as a goal. There's a theory that life (and thus evolution too) exists to better dissipate energy. "England’s calculations suggested that groups of atoms that are driven by external energy sources can behave differently: They tend to start tapping into those energy sources, aligning and rearranging so as to better absorb the energy and dissipate it as heat... England sees life, and its extraordinary confluence of form and function, as the ultimate outcome of dissipation-driven adaptation and self-replication." https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life-20170726/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-t...
- selimthegrim 7y agoEngland’s proof says nothing about how you get to that sink in the first place
- hoseja 7y agoIterative, empirically driven engineering is evolution-like.
- Agebor 7y agoSee Universal Darwinism for how it actually may have a goal.