GaryGaulin
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| Quote (N.Wells @ Jan. 20 2016,22:32) |
From me, several years ago:
| Quote | | Some of what you say about "learning", "learning circuits", "memory" and "guesses" can be applied, metaphorically, to how DNA results from (and therefore records) previously successful mutations. In that way, the population or species could in a crude sense be said to have "learned". However, populations aren't exactly individuals, mutations aren't exactly guesses, DNA isn't exactly memory, and changes in gene frequency aren't exactly learning. Worse, we know of no way that "intelligence" can act or even exist at the levels you discuss. Moreover, everything we know about the system tells us that the processes in evolutionary theory work as advertised. In short, you've gone overboard on an unfortunate metaphor. |
From Midwife Toad, also several years ago: | Quote |
Evolution has been viewed metaphorically as a learning system since the early 20th century. You need to discuss these earlier writings and tell us how your theory builds on them or differs from them.
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Your perspective is not new. The idea that evolution is a kind of learning is perhaps a hundred years old. I know of at least one explicit reference from 1928. The problem is that it is a metaphor and an analogy, and learning simulations don't really say anything specific about the way chemistry works.
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Nor about the biology, which is well established from studies in ecology, population genetics, and the like. |
Show me where I state in the theory that "evolution is intelligent":
https://sites.google.com/site....ign.pdf
You and others are seeing things.
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The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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