> On Apr 6, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote: > > I don't accept the neoDarwinian hypothesis that adaptation and evolution are > due to randomness and Natural Selection. I think that adaptation and > evolution are actions of Mind; that is, the biological systems adapt to > environmental realities - not randomly - but as INFORMED systems.
Well that might put a bit of an impasse since I tend to accept normal evolutionary theories and mechanisms. But more what I’m getting at is how chance (speaking broadly here in a fashion that might include randomness and spontaneity) combined with more determinate structures can lead to mind. Put an other way, I see mind as informed mind as more an emergent or higher order phenomena. But it’s a phenomena that arises out of habit and chance. My sense, perhaps incorrect, is that you want spontaneity within mind to be a kind of informed deliberation not reducible to its parts (including chance). > By entropy I am referring to the nature of a biological system that 'holds' > or binds energy as matter within its morphological nature. So, a particular > biological species that changes its capacity to hold onto this matter-and its > metabolic transformation, and it might to this for any number of reasons - > might release energy/matter to the 'world', which is then rapidly made use of > by another biological system. So, we will see an increasing complexity in an > ecosystem. A swamp with myriad grasses might see the development of more > 'individualistic grasses' which function only in a narrow range of the swamp, > BUT, this might lead to a proliferation of more diverse grasses and plants; > more diverse insects and birds - some at the periphery of the swamp, some in > the mainstream. > I’m trying to wrap my mind around that sense of entropy and relate it more to the sense in traditional thermodynamics. This seems a much, much, narrower use although maybe I’m just missing something since I’m not familiar with this use. (John - you mentioned your experience with thermodynamics. Any help here?)
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