Re:Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript
by joshuak on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:46PM
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Because as Dawkins points out you cannot intentionally evolve a target species. You can intentionally select from a set of results to influence future results, but you cannot produce a particular result intentionally.
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Re:Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript
by yters on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:08PM
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even proximate results being selected is intentionality. i.e. i select a more simple design, then one with an interesting whorl, then one that looks like a bug. all that is intentional. or his example of butterflies selecting butterfly like biomorphs. again intentional, but at the insect level
it seems all very ambiguous what dawkins is trying to argue. if i try to make his argument rigorously worded it falls apart