Funny how evolution doesn't really learn things, modulo some epigenetics at the margins, even though we think of it as a kind of learning process. It just kills off those who don't happen to know things. Suggests almost all learning is worthless past one lifetime.
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I think that’s why we developed writing. Recording shifts power through time. Similar to how laws move power away from biology and distributes uniquely. Ie fat cops with guns can kill the biologically superior, younger, stronger. We’re re negotiating this currently
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I think of this as analogous to brains: the individual neurons don't really learn things, but the whole mind/brain system does.
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Do you mean like stuff (life+other stuff) as a whole doesn't learn or that the evolutionary process doesn't improve? Also what do you mean by evolution, are you including sexual selection as a part of evolution. If so then the mechanism of evolution itself has evolved.
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what could learning things be but the survival of that which doesn't die? via negativa: knowledge as remembering, positivism: knowledge as accumulation
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Seems to me that people talk about evolution as teleological to avoid talking about the consistent and brutal deaths of non-survivors, which was usually the default event.
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Evolution *evaluates* particular gene sequences by instantiating organisms. Then it updates its current search position (the composition of the gene pool) based on the result.
To update organisms mid-life, it would either need gradients (lol ATCG) or sub-eval (???).
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It's a fundamental constraint on human progress. Been thinking about it but haven't had time to get thoughts together yet.
Provisional titles: "Information entropy through the generations", "Death destroys information"
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A constraint over human progress is that people die, and so every new person needs to learn things again.
Schools try to address this... as does specialisation.
The better we can give this knowledge-speed-boost, and retain scepticism/curiosity, the faster we will progress.








