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To: AC Flyer who wrote (14467)	2/5/2002 12:14:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Evolution is not a process of linear progress moving towards ever greater perfection. > Actually, I suspect it is [not linear, but progressive]. But there's no proof of that yet that I'm aware of - it just seems suspiciously likely. There is definitely something going on. Another unfounded urban myth doing the rounds is that that process has created free will. Sure, we can choose to go left or right and make other very superficial choices, but even those are deterministic as far as I can tell. But dig a bit deeper and let's see people free-will their neurotransmitters into subservience to their will; a few glitches soon show up. Not to mention even more difficult free-will propositions such as selection of sexuality. Heterosexual males find it difficult to look at a guy and think he's much more than a kind of ugly monkey who at least can play golf and go fishing. Jay, how about reporting how you've decided to find the guys at those Hong Kong functions more attractive than the females? No chance! Which is not to say we should give up the game because we have no choice. There is plenty to go on with and not-being doesn't seem as good a 'choice' as being. So I just blunder on with my DNA and experiential drives and hope something shows up. Dinner for example... Mq

To: AC Flyer who wrote (14467)	2/8/2002 4:03:59 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

We are just ambulatory bags of sea water Hey, I resemble that remark!