Joe Dees input:
> I must come back to the point that there is no will in evolution,
...okay. I believe I understand what you're saying. now [assumes
inquisitive demeanour] are our experiences of [will, intention] etc.
expressions of free action or are they constrained by the
environment, our experience and heredity?
> thus it cannot intend, plan or carry a plan out. Evolution thus is
> not, in the natural world, evolving technology (the Hermit's
circuits
> are a different matter). We do all of these (intend, plan, carry
> out plans) in design and manufacture. While evolution has provided
> us, quite unintentionally, with our finite, incarnate, and
> perspectival embodied condition, technology allows us to construct
> out of our external environment material means by which we may
> augment our limited natural ground capacities for perception, action
> and cognition.
-psypher