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From: sylvere@divsun.unige.ch (Silvere Martin-Michiellot)
Subject: Re: Computers--Next stage in evolution? Hmm
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 15:39:16 GMT
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In article iaf@news.u.washington.edu, gorgonne@u.washington.edu (Wombat Love) writes:
> >: Demetrius L. Davis (davisd@pleiades.cs.rpi.edu) wrote:
> 
> 
> >: yet through this complex chain of 
> >: evolutionary selections and survivals, here we are on top.
> 					  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	
> 
> 	whoa.  Pardon my interjection, but could someone justify 
> that statement for me?
> 	Becuase humans (it seems) are the most "complex" forms of life 
> extant, does it necessarily follow that they are the most advanced or 
> successful?
> 	This seems to be a fairly naive, anthropocentric standpoint.
> 
> 			-Josh


You stupid.
First, we are not the most complex. (no more, no less than other mammals for example.)
Then, the top can only mean that we have no predator : advanced, or succesful is only human concern (and the hope that everything we do leads us to a better world).

Adaptation to what, indeed ?
To nothing. Mere luck. That is all.

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"Is anyone alive down there ?"   

Silvere MARTIN-MICHIELLOT


