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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1385)	5/25/2006 10:43:20 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Darwin's work is based on the fact that life continues only through reproduction of parents, and that it stops at the death of the organism. That is a great simplifying factor. Once you start discussing the evolution of information that is not fixed to this simple pattern. Information that can be taught, for example, becomes very hard to analyse because the inheritence and synthesis is chaotic. The study of memes is quite interesting, but it has much less predictive power than the study of genes because it's so difficult to know with certainty the parentage of an idea nor how many other ideas are blended in any particular concept. TP

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1385)	6/1/2006 9:23:00 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 69300

<Nature is full of beauty of course, but it is so regardless of whether natural things are evolved by some natural process or designed by a creative force.> I think it may be helpful to try and define 'intelligence' or awareness, or consciousness in order to talk about evolution. I usually find that many wonks talk all about random evolution and trying to define that and include all sorts of biological activity as having none of those qualities, but refuse to discuss the qualities themselves. Tons of very smart scientists question these attributes, anyone dismissing them out of hand really should be trying to define what they are dismissing. DAK