In a message dated 99-03-01 12:34:54 EST, Anders writes:
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> It seems to me that biology researchers (like my son) have extrapolated the
> most gruesome meme (we are junk that luckily survived) from their seriously
> flawed (scientifically, not theologically) theory that natural selection is
> accidental.
I wonder over this view, Kauffman seems to share it with you. It is so different from my view: we are unique, contingent! If the universe was re-run again, nothing like us would ever appear. We have been selected, not randomly but with the help of randomness. There is nothing gruesome with that. >>
Thanks Anders, I totally agree with you. It's the sense that we are lucky junk (a direct quotation) that I think is gruesome. I love your expression that we are unique and contingent.
Adrian