>>> JF <pilgrim@cyberdude.com> 27/July/1998 01:16am >>>
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>Gerhard Kessell-Haak (Gerhard Kessell-Haak) wrote:
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>> As intelligence and the societies/civilizations/structure- complexes it
>> creates become governed more by directed intelligent evolution than
>> natural evolution, it seems to me that it will only make changes that
>> increase its overall "state".
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>How will evolution be directed? By whom or what?
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>> Assuming we evaluate the state of a
>> civilization by comparing it to the limits prescribed by our current
>> understanding of physical laws, it appears that there should be an
>> "optimal state" that intelligent systems should tend towards.
>>Regardless
>> of the initial environment, conditions, substrates, characteristics, etc.
>>of
>> civilizations, it seems that once they has harnessed the power of
>> directed evolution that they should tend to strive for this "optimal
>>state".
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>Again, how and who would direct this evolution?
Sorry Buddy, but that wasn't me. Although it seem to me that 'evolution' can be self-directed once one becomes aware of the existence of the concept.
Must be the way my email program includes messages being replied too.