Re: virus: maxims and ground rules and suppositions

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>There are no local effects, all effects are global.

Which is a nice way to say not a lot about the local effect. There is still an impetus and an action and a reaction, i.e. my typing/your typing which may or may not have any degree of wide-ranging effects- and yes-

>This changes the environment in which
>we and others must manouver, which alters tha balance of
>characteristics necessary to flourish in the environment.

• the above is all necessarily true. But it ain't got nothin' whatsoever to do with the evolutionary forces that put us both here to begin with. Yes, environment is global. Evolution is universal. It was here before we needed to learn about it. I do indeed see a distinction there. And yes, (see Sarfatti), there is a breakdown in this distinction if and only if consciousness is a necessary quality of the universe. I personally don't think it is.

So far, I remain convinced only that all things were all things once upon a time, but that entropy has divided all things into every things.

We are creating the environment, not the evolution that works within it.

Gould's take on the non-directionlessness of evolution is part and parcel of almost all his works, but I remember seeing it in The Panda's Thumb, but most of all in a talk he gave here which was broadcast on C-SPAN.

• Wade

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