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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: 'goals' vs. 'features'
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 Although Evolution proceeds as a statistical phenomenon mediated
 by Natural Selection, the way in which Natural Selection chooses goals
 may properly be viewed as a kind of 'local-teleology'.

 Example:
 In the primordial world of unicellular organisms , some mutations
 lead to photosensistive membrane-regions , there was a competititve
 advantage in being differentially reactive to light, therefore
 Natural Selection selected FROM THAT POINT IN TIME ON for 'vision'.
 Thus random , selected primordial 'features', became CONTINUOUSLY
 selected for 'goals'.


