An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by Balance_Maintained @, U.S.A., Sunday, August 31, 2014, 04:08 (3498 days ago) @ David Turell

Tony: Polymorphism allows the change within kinds, not invention.
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> David: That still leaves us with pre-planning, dabbling or the inventive mechanism has pre-set plans within it.-
Programs can not invent. Period. They can implement anything within the scope of their design, but they can not create new information from whole-cloth. That is the sort of adaptation that we actually observe in nature. It is not inventive. It may move within a broad range of possible values, and different combinations of those value types might give the appearance of invention, but it is not invention.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.


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