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Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
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What this book aims to show is that the computational universe conceived of by Wheeler and popularized by Seth Lloyd is also the Darwinian universe described by universal Darwinism and evolutionary epistemology.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Charles Darwin • On the origin of species
although it is self-evidently true, it is not self-evidently the explanation of specific adaptations. Our intuition prefers explanations in terms of function or purpose: what does a gene do for its holder, or for its species? But we have just seen that the genes generally do not optimize such functionality.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
À présent, l’évolution se fait en grande partie par le biais des variations et de la sélection naturelle. Les
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
Evolution has no foresight.
Peter Watts • Blindsight (Firefall Book 1)
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
So, both human knowledge and biological adaptations are abstract replicators: forms of information which, once they are embodied in a suitable physical system, tend to remain so while most variants of them do not.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
He poured all of his energy into this enterprise, accumulating so many specimens that a theory began to take shape in his mind. After five years at sea, he returned to England and devoted the rest of his life to the single task of elaborating his theory of evolution.