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Evolution creates knowledge, but it certainly doesn't cogitate, otherwise it would design things rationally and with purpose. Instead we get eyes that filter li
by card_zero 1y ago
Evolution creates knowledge, but it certainly doesn't cogitate, otherwise it would design things rationally and with purpose. Instead we get eyes that filter light through their own nerve circuitry, and lots of side effects and happy accidents, and millions of kinds of beetle, and no wheels.
- armchairhacker 1y agoWhat is "purpose"? Evolution is rational: it constantly produces species that survive better. Sure, there are many ugly "hacks" and things it could do better; yet we also produce things with hacks, e.g. enterprise software. Evolution not producing wheels may be analogous to humans not solving very large problems (e.g. computing very large numbers) in our heads; today we solve very large problems with machines, but likewise evolution has "developed" wheels through us building them.