On 2/20/06, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Mr. Kurzweil is not getting at anything. This is a talk delivered by > Dr. James N. Gardner. You seem to have read the rest of it with as > much attention as the attribution at the beginning. > It's on Kurweil's site, so it must fit into his agenda. What (in a nutshell) do you think I've missed; what in my previous post seems to miss Dr. Gardners point? Are you saying that this essay or talk or whatever isn't about Design Theory? "The essence of the Selfish Biocosm hypothesis is that the universe we inhabit is in the process of becoming pervaded with increasingly intelligent life—but not necessarily human or even human-successor life. Under the theory, the emergence of life and increasingly competent intelligence are not meaningless accidents in a hostile, largely lifeless cosmos but at the very heart of the vast machinery of creation, cosmological evolution, and cosmic replication. However, the theory does not require or even suggest that the life and intelligence that emerge be human or human-successor in nature." cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
