Re: MD Chaos and its role in Evolution

From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Oct 23 2005 - 12:14:48 BST

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    Mark, my view on this,

    ... is that "chaos" provides the feedstock and breeding ground for
    evolution, the opportunities for DQ to exploit - ranging from the
    mutations where these are the classic Darwinian randomly generated
    kind, or any of the neo-Darwinian, emergent pattern, inevitable
    engineering solution driven changes. (Of course that range is the same
    distinction as between classic and formal chaos.)

    Thinking at loud (and in a bit of a hurry as usual) your mental
    picture / graph - with order / unitary / static quality at one end,
    with classic chaos at the other infinite extreme, and with the "sweet
    spot" of DQ, (or harmony / resonance or formal chaotic / emergent
    pattern / strange attractors) at the interesting point in between -
    still holds a lot of attraction for me.

    Interestingly, you may have noticed, I have an opposite argument going
    on with a physicist on my "anthropic principle" thread, which suggests
    that even the evolution of higher life / intelligence is just the 2nd
    Law of Thermodynamics relentless (teleological) drive to increase
    (net) entropy / chaos. But don't let that put you off, yet :-)

    Ian

    On 10/21/05, mark maxwell <laughingpines@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
    > Hello All,
    >
    > "All life is a migration of static patterns of quality
    > toward Dynamic Quality." Lila.
    >
    > May a definition of chaos be formed by postulating a
    > function for it in value evolution?
    >
    > "All life is a migration of static patterns of quality
    > (away from chaos and) toward Dynamic Quality."
    >
    > I have been assuming DQ motivates sq evolution. But i
    > cannot find textual support for this view.
    > If sq migrates toward DQ, then is it sensible to
    > enquire if sq is trying to escape from something in a
    > negative sense?
    >
    > Thoughts?
    > mark
    >
    >
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