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And in a way the man that shot baker really had no creative awareness of what he was doing. It was the nerve impulses that caused the arm to raise and...

I just watched an interesting interview with Feinmann on the question 'why'. He said he could not answer sufficiently when asked why a magnet is attra...

Hi Bitter Crank, would this suggest a sentience?: http://www.amjbot.org/content/96/11/1990.full It has been shown that if growing beside kin, the plan...

Welcome aboard.

So, to come back to Divergent Evolution, should the allele diversity in the population increase rapidly in the population or become conservative to co...

The canvas is functioning like an effective filter for all the possible creative combinations you could be expressing right now. Of course, being the ...

Hence the canvas.

You are writing on your canvas right now, Blue Banana. It's a lovely picture of the defence of an antiquated evolutionary system :) .

You're not wrong, ever moreso these days. Creativity is being trampled by bureacracy, proven documented accountability, action plans, centralised cont...

But as Creative Evolutionists say, Blue Banana, the environment is just the canvas that allows the expression of the creativity to be seen. It must be...

Ha ha, very good.

Absolutely. Its the puzzle and debate and bouncing of ideas that's exciting.

Well thanks Rich, but I'm not in the field. I did a couple of degrees in biological and molecular science and lectured for a few years, but then argue...

Then why the wombat?

Well, I can confirm that the argument was over an inability to replicate the results. The Research School had been working on the same question. You c...

Hi StreetlightX, I haven't read your paper in a lot of detail yet, I will save that for the weekend, but on the face of it calling Natural Selection '...

I agree. Just like people. The fun thing to explain, like Nelson alluded to, is when we have a tone of positively weighted inputs, that when summed le...

Hi Rich, I take your point on the corruption of science. When private companies are make a fortune selling a product that science says is needed, they...

I agree with your post, Apokrisis. I agree you need conservative and creative elements alike to succeed and you need regulation over them. In the DNA ...

Hi Blue Banana, I think you started by trying to argue Survival of the Fittest and ended up lending weight to Creative Evolution. "The more variance t...

Thanks for your input, but I think you've missed the point completely Harry, and now almost find yourself arguing my case. I agree in times of great e...

It's a bit of a prickly paradox. It needs the order to allow the disorder. It can't be All Creative. It is the order part of the creative 'package' th...

No, but the program that tells the machine gun to shoot anyone who steps over the fence sure shoots real bullets. So life is a manifold. To what end -...

Thanks StreetlightX. I'll check it out.

Haven't you seen the Matrix movies, Apokrisis? I could build a system of robots that could make the factories, fix the glitches that halted production...

There are other factors outside of Survival of the Fittest theory that seek to enhance variability, is that the position? Can you elaborate a little m...

Thanks StreetlightX. It's a little sneaky to say that creativity was selected for, although it made me smile. Survival of the Fittest swallows Creatio...

It sounds pretty bang on with creative evolution. Those ancients may not have had the instrumentation of today, but they could deduce better than anyo...

There's could be a problem of restraint here Rich. Creativity by definition is working against rigidity - against restraint, and yet you've defined it...

Hi Nelson, if a human has an illogical thought process, is that also the result of the faulty wiring or code? What's the difference?

Hi Apokrisis. It's always good to read your posts. Just a couple of questions for you. What do you mean by "means" in the above statement "it doesn't ...

I probably am describing neurosis in general. I agree that language is very dominant in human relations, but it is the least effective tool you have i...

You might have answered it, but here's the post. " In one of the examples the man's eyes and optic nerves were functioning fine, but the visual cortex...

I am trying to reason this out with myself as much as with you, and I take your point that divergence can be accounted for in the Survival of the Fitt...

Phobias. If we could program the computer to learn and adapt information from its environment that increased its probability of survival by evoking a ...

Its great fun to study human behaviour. I may be off track here with your OP, but do you know what this reminds me of? "Dog Whisperer". I find Dog Whi...

So, are you saying that our own illogical feelings just 'pop' into existence without a neurochemical or coded cause?

Hi Nelson, This is well a considered point. Why wouldn't a program that allows for illogical feelings count though? Scientists are, afterall, designin...

I like the idea of germ line transmission of experiences. It sounds so right. It would be the perfect way to adapt your progeny to a new world. If you...

Hi Harry, I am assuming that by Natural Selection you are referring to the Survival of the Fittest model. The problem I can see with Natural Selection...

Creative evolution seems a better model.

Hi Apokrisis, I quite agree that experiences throughout a lifetime must affect the germ line, although I think we both would be in the minority. For e...

I've been turning the theory over all day long, and am quite surprised that I have not been met by a rush of contradictions - not a single one. Not ye...

I can see the attraction of the theory straight away. Let me turn it over for a while and get back to you.

Yeah, I know where you're coming from. Sometimes you have to sort through a lot of debris to find the gem. I think Hoffman made a good point with the ...

I haven't got to a lot of mathematical references except the QM ones which he wants to refute, but imagine that the mathematics is the key that unlock...

I'm about halfway through the Paper, Wayfarer, and I have to say Hoffman seems a bit all over the map. I get the sense he is trying to turn a pretty b...

Then what is the point of the hologram?

Wayfarer, I am about a third of the way through the paper and you are not going to believe this, but I used to espouse this point of view many years a...

I just want to add to this comment that they can. It's adaptation to the environment, best seen through consecutive generations.