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To: Wildstar who wrote (7719)	3/13/2006 9:39:27 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 24758

Gravity has a direction, as does electric current, Not to put too fine of a point on it, what direction does gravity take? Down? Consider Einstein's Elevator, or any room that's falling under gravity. You're inside. There's no windows. The only thing you report is you're floating and there's no particular direction in the float. So are you under the influence of gravity? Down the same line what direction does electricity take? In whatever direction the wire goes? What if there is no wire? Which direct do the components of electricity move? Without a wire the current would lose its cohesiveness, and diverge. In what direction? What are the laws governing such movement? as does the 2nd law of thermodynamics, Heat flows. In which direction? There's a lot of physicists who like to think that heat flow indicates the direction of time. It's ridiculous and it seems so intuitively. One of the problems of GR is that there is unique "direction", as it were for the fourth coordinate, so treating that coordinate as though it were categorically equivalent to the other ones, is incorrect. Time has an infinite number of directions. Accordingly, so would heat if heat flow was a measure of time. but none of those things have goals in any teleological sense. Only thinking beings can cook up teleological considerations, but gravity and electricity can exist without thinking beings, at least that's what the West thinks. Evolution is a process of nature based on laws of nature which, much like the market, results in a spontaneous order of organized chaos, based on action, not design. Seemingly intended properties result from algorithms of selection. Any process that involves replication and differential selection can be described as "evolution" and can have this apparent "goal" and "order" as proxies for "direction" and "emergent complexity". That's pretty good and it's your own.