But don’t these calculations establish a lower bound on how complex or adaptive genetic evolution is? But not an upper bound?
It would seem that, using the same approach toward a nervous system would lead one to calculate the adaptiveness of a dendrite—or less. Uh, what is a part of nervous system operation that seems comfortably “understood” to the same extent as AGTC operations? Whatever part that is, would, in a fair comparison, be what could be compared to the mechanism these calculations describe. Yes?
Anyway, isn’t it premature to assert, “Natural selection, though not simple, is simpler than a human brain”, given the current understanding of either?
And, please, let’s not go too far along the road of “Look how smart we are! Evolution didn’t produce diddly, while, in only 4 hundred years we have produced millions of My Little Pony dolls.” Evolution produced cow pies, which we are still struggling with, after all. :)
Speculation of what nervous systems and genetic evolution do in common sure seems like fertile ground, though. It would be interesting to know, for instance, what’s both necessary and sufficient to describe both.
Nice calculations!
But don’t these calculations establish a lower bound on how complex or adaptive genetic evolution is? But not an upper bound?
It would seem that, using the same approach toward a nervous system would lead one to calculate the adaptiveness of a dendrite—or less. Uh, what is a part of nervous system operation that seems comfortably “understood” to the same extent as AGTC operations? Whatever part that is, would, in a fair comparison, be what could be compared to the mechanism these calculations describe. Yes?
Anyway, isn’t it premature to assert, “Natural selection, though not simple, is simpler than a human brain”, given the current understanding of either?
And, please, let’s not go too far along the road of “Look how smart we are! Evolution didn’t produce diddly, while, in only 4 hundred years we have produced millions of My Little Pony dolls.” Evolution produced cow pies, which we are still struggling with, after all. :)
Speculation of what nervous systems and genetic evolution do in common sure seems like fertile ground, though. It would be interesting to know, for instance, what’s both necessary and sufficient to describe both.