Certainly life has been evolving for billions of years, and there’s no way to guess at what humans might design over a similar period of time.
So let’s look at evolutionary algorithms—specifically, those implemented in computers and used to generate microchip designs. What human designer even comes close to what a repeated cycle of mutation and selection has been demonstrated to be capable of?
Our models of the world are necessarily imperfect approximations of the underlying reality. Evolution is a functio nof the reality itself, not an approximation of it, and as such it will always have a power that no amount of rational analysis can even approach. It’s like flowing water—unable to look at the surrounding territory and adjust its behavior accordingly, but unerring in responding appropriately to its immediate environment.
The most sophisticated information-processing device in the known universe was not only designed by evolution, but operates on evolutionary principles. If you insist upon attempting to impose design, you will never accomplish what letting order arise from chaos can.
Certainly life has been evolving for billions of years, and there’s no way to guess at what humans might design over a similar period of time.
So let’s look at evolutionary algorithms—specifically, those implemented in computers and used to generate microchip designs. What human designer even comes close to what a repeated cycle of mutation and selection has been demonstrated to be capable of?
Our models of the world are necessarily imperfect approximations of the underlying reality. Evolution is a functio nof the reality itself, not an approximation of it, and as such it will always have a power that no amount of rational analysis can even approach. It’s like flowing water—unable to look at the surrounding territory and adjust its behavior accordingly, but unerring in responding appropriately to its immediate environment.
The most sophisticated information-processing device in the known universe was not only designed by evolution, but operates on evolutionary principles. If you insist upon attempting to impose design, you will never accomplish what letting order arise from chaos can.