2018-10-25 at 6:18 PM UTC
off topic, but im trying to get one of those occupy mars shirts elon always wears
2018-10-25 at 7:41 PM UTC
Zanick
motherfucker
[my p.a. supernal goa]
While we're speculating outside of Darwinian evolution, can we imagine a population whose features are different with regards to teleological progress? Why must we presume they will be discovered in a mode of being we're familiar with at all?
2018-10-26 at 1:53 AM UTC
I'm starting by imagining a form of "life" that might grow without reproductive selection. We know there are simple self replicating molecules like some RNAs. What's really interesting me these days is XNA. But that's another tangent.
I imagine that for a non-Darwinian process to be possible, the environment would play a very big role.
2018-10-26 at 3:41 AM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
Think of existences as computer programs, and one of these computer programs is able to arrange and display pixels which form the substance of our world. The pixels are the atoms, arranged in such as way that reality as we know comes together in a highly organized fashion. This reality of ours is written in a code of atoms. But you can also have totally different pixels/atoms which run alongside, which are created by different programming language coding. One program can't see the other program, and so one set of pixels/atoms can't "see" the other. Our reality is composed of atomic particles, and the other reality is composed of totally different atomic particles, but both are as real as each other.
2018-10-26 at 8:44 PM UTC
Nil
African Astronaut
[the overexcited four-footed chanar]
Wow, I'm trying to wrap my head around this but can't. Talk about a paradigm.
Obviously Darwin wrote about sexual selection, maybe life gets weird without natural pressure, arbitrary factors influencing development.
