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If you want to limit your understanding to what you can measure then your findings will suit you completely. For example, we may ask "Why did the trai...

That's where I disagree.

Again forest for the trees. By skipping over intentionality or directional design and simply observing what you can measure, you miss the whole show.

Yes, it's a good point. Its a bit like a forest for the trees way of thinking though. For me the question is why are they doing that? Why are atoms fo...

Hi Apokrisis, what are the primary reasons given in support of abiogenesis in Nick Lane's books? Can you give a quick overview? Thanks.

Anyway Rich, I might jump off this thread and catch up with you on another.

Hi Rich, I like this quote. If we are a memory field though, changing direction may be a harder then it appears.

When Buddha refined the definition of Karma from being a result of rituals to being a consequence of actions, was this akin to saying there is no god ...

Hi Wayfarer, How is Karma conceptualised in Buddhism? Is it thought of as an energy field or an omnipotent hand or something like that ?

Thanks Nils Loc, these are enjoyable poems. My OP is suggesting a conceptual location for Creativity as eminating from just beneath a boundary layer, ...

Hi T Clark, I'm just calling it a possum for convenience. It was a possum like marsupial ancestor at science's best guess. This page has a good image ...

This is a great point Metaphysician Undercover. I am still trying to figure it out as I go along too. You looked at the start of a chain of logic. The...

Togographically attractors could be thought of as minimas (enhancing survivability), as genomes converge on the minima or skirt the minima convergence...

Life had to begin moving almost immediately upon its conception, lest it sink immediately back into the void, which I imagine was bubbling a lot more ...

Yeah, it opens up a much more interesting toolbox. Defining the singularities in a genomic landscape in a topological map would be the challenge. For ...

After all that, I think I just ended up rewording you StreetlightX.

This sums up my thinking so far. What do people think? Can you follow the logic? Are there any errors in the logic? Are there any insights you can gle...

And if we know the speed of time causing the radial expansion, and the size of the adaptive landscape at different points in time....oh crap, the size...

I think we can also surmise that the sphere is hollow, as life is riding time, and time is not washing through a predetermined state of life, merely i...

We also know that life arose from the adaptive landscape. It is an interesting boundary, or continuum.

Yeah, that's precisely the idea Srap Trasmaner. The latency in the DNA you speak of also enables further penetration along the ridge. It's a good poin...

It has done this by filling out every possible combination that allowed it to occur.

I should elaborate on the population a bit more for you. Every variant in the population is either more suited or less suited to its environment or ha...

Yes, that would be on the time axis expanding radially from a center of life billions of years back in time, emerging like an expanding sphere. To und...

Good to know, I might have some Bergson questions for you later. :)

I think the human like robot era's coming Rich. It's just code. Layer upon layer, subroutine upon subroutine. Trial and error. It sounds like you're s...

Hi Rich, I do understand what you mean, moreso since we started talking. I'm watching Sheldrake now and will try and get into Bergson after that. I li...

Life is the immanence expanding through the changing material landscape, causing life to flash on and off like blinking Christmas lights.

It's still eminence though through time. The expanding sphere. Where's the immanence?

Oh, I see, the evolutionary tree, whose flashing tips are the current points on the genotype network.

Oh, do you mean differentiated in the meaning of differential equation? New level that underpins the genotype network?

I can see the checkerboard of lights in the network lighting up and switching off as the adaptive space is traversed. How do we go from central emanat...

Thanks anonymous66, I'll look him up. He might have YouTube stuff.

No, I think you've missed the trick there Metaphysician. If we extrapolate the inteference from the paper, there are not billions and billions of diff...

Wow, that's it. You've advanced my thinking on the matter by quite a few steps. Thank you.

Splintering tangentially now from this idea though is the idea of sentience. That there is an overarching sentience driving evolution. For a while I h...

Hi Srap, that is what I am trying to figure out. That something other than blind dumb luck allows evolution to continue to progress through time, I ha...

Yes, you are right. I should have been clearer and will attempt to be clearer in the future. Thanks for your input.

StreetlightX, Let me start by saying that Dynamic Systems Theory is at the heart of developmental psychology. Perhaps the cursory examinations of the ...

Hi StreetlightX, thanks for your response. I will respond at leisure more tomorrow, for now though it is early morning and I just popped in to see if ...

Another good answer. I was talking about the universe and evolution, which does not permit sentience into its framework of thinking and you're talking...

Yeah, that one snuck up on me. I was down the other end of the pool.

Would not, could not, should not, did not. I'll grant that psychology likes to jump into that stuff, just like philosophers do. So in that regard my d...

This is a good quote StreetlightX. It's good to see that science is trying to address there shortfalls. However, saying that the action arose in the m...

The difference would be that science could never link a deliberate intent between the firing of the bullet and the death of the baker. Scientific appr...

In Japan, the Shinto's tie little tags around rocks and trees and put them near rivers- in the middle of nowhere I may add, and on those tags is writt...

I think the key to proving the equality of the theories of sentience and god etc may be through the scrutiny of science itself, and looking for incong...

Science could explain how the universe started by outlining all the conditions that would be required at the start and then working systematically for...

Here is some of the text from one of the articles concerning the chemicals the plants release. It reinforces the question of whether evolution is crea...

Which is the more likely scenario, that the nerves raised the arm and pulled the trigger and the baker was just in the way, or that the man was aware ...