RE: MD Chaos and its role in Evolution

From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Sun Oct 23 2005 - 22:59:18 BST

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    [Ian]
    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 :-)

    [Case]
    I think the cleavage of reality into Chaos and Order is really what the MoQ
    is all about. As I have state previously I see it as the fundemental
    ontology of the MoQ. Quality is the preception of harmony. It is where
    things are right, when the motorcycle is tuned and purring, when people see
    that the putting together a barbeque grill is really sculpture, when the
    sophist lays down with the dialectisian. All this happens with opposing
    forces are in balance. We call it Quality.
    And I agree that the evolution of life is just a fancy way of dispursing
    solar radiation into entropy.

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