RE: virus: Re: Social Metaphysics
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:26:46 +0100
> From: Tadeusz Niwinski[SMTP:tad@teta.ai]
>
> Robin wrote:
> >Can anyone explain why evolution would need "driving"
> >by any particular property of objective reality?
>
> In a non-consistent reality evolution would not be possible. The
> fittest
> phenotypes survive. If there was no consistency between genotypes and
> phenotypes, the same genotypes could result in different phenotypes
> each
> time (and not "the best ones").
>
If there was no consistency between these messages as
they leave the sender and as they arrive at the receiver,
communication via email would be impossible.
> Consistency is driving evolution the same
> way as gravity drives a falling rock.
>
Would you say that consistency is driving email
the same way as gravity drives a falling rock?
I'd suggest that, in both cases, consistency is
just one of a number of prerequisites.
Robin