From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 07:55:55 MDT
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Damien Broderick wrote:
> >ask how in the>world you could believe that such nonsense is not
> > swiftly dealt with by evolution.
>
> Evolution of which replicators on which substrate? Cf. Emlyn's post
> earlier.
I started to respond to Robin's comments -- but they may be impacted
by multiple source comments over the last 24 hours -- so they may
be better dealt with in a formal paper of some type -- that is
going to need to wait until I get through "Where Is Everybody?"
to see if it adds anything useful to the conversation.
But the question of "Why replicate?" (and how to best do so)
is interesting (and perhaps relevant to the F.P.).
It would appear that one might have:
(a) random evolution (e.g. order arising from chaos -- the Earth to date);
(b) other directed evolution (e.g. we are all running in a simulation);
(c) self-directed evolution (e.g. we drive ourselves in some
direction -- say determined by something like the extropian
principles).
My position with regard to the F.P. seems to be based on (c)
and the idea that many, if not all, logical, intelligent,
technological civilizations reach the same conclusion with
regard to the best direction(s) in which to drive ones
own self-evolution.
Can anyone offer reasons as to why (a) or (b) trump (c)?
(And we are talking variety of time scales ranging anywhere
from thousands to trillions of years).
Robert
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