The most extraordinary orders in both the natural and human worlds are unplanned, lack any overarching intention or design
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I am not sure. As soon as you go above random mutation and selection, you will find that evolution is driven by deliberate optimization and active construction. That's why many organisms have minds: they don't go about their life in an unplanned way, but model and control.
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Entropy!
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Negentropy!
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@eripsa do you agree that a virus has no agency or goals? -
Viruses are a fun example! Before giving my view, a few facts to consider first: - Viruses are connected to the same tree of life as us, and many likely evolved *after* multicellular organisms were around to serve as hosts. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/8/e1500527.full …pic.twitter.com/aWoWIPtE7B
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With great freedom comes great reproductivity.
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Motive, agency and goals are a matter of perspective not an objective fact about an entity
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It has a motive. It's motive is to spread.
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Do we have motive, agency and goals that can be read outside our own species?
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