From: RIGHTSBOY@aol.com
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 11:02:29 MDT
Re: virus: uptopias vs. evolutionary algorithms (was: any comments)
In a message dated Tue, 18 Jun 2002 3:50:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jkr438 writes:
> This seems a pretty frequent ideological goal of many >technophilic fantasies, to "escape" from Darwinian evolution, >to no longer have a "blind watchmaker" but human/transhuman >desires and intentions to do the work of evolution.
The human faculty for internally contriving a sensory experiential 'goal state'(e.g. "fantasies", etc.), along with an experiential feedback strategy for achieving that goal state, _is_ the work of evolution (if that theory be comprehensive).
Our onus is determining whether our internal goal states and strategies are compatible with external environmental constraints. To address this ever-present conundrum, mankind has evolved the self-refining environmental analysis algorithm we generally refer to as "the scientific method". Being as it is a relatively new device, and challenges anachronistic "world view" algorithms, and their entrenched self-maintaining maintenance hierarchies (arguably combined with some primitive 'guild'-like tendencies of its own wanna-be authoritarian hierarchies), the scientific method is still foreign to a huge percentage of the earth's human population. (pant, pant, pant,...)
> In any case, despite any optimism on particular issues, >evolution - and here I mean the blind variety - operates on a
> more impersonal and more holistic level.
>
'Evolution' is more 'progressive' when guided (or 'focused') by its own 'history', rather than "blind(as in purely random)variety (as in 'happenstance')".
The more tools I have, the more tools I can build.
I build with what I have already built. (I build my own self-embodied "history".)
Chris selforgnet@aol.com
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