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Re: Flood and evolution
Posted By: General Vagueness <General.Vagueness@gmail.com>Date: 2/10/12 7:43 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Flood and evolution (scarab)


: I'm not sure what you mean.

: By definition Intelligent Design requires intelligence.

: Every organism that is born or splits off from a sister cell and has any
: change in its genome is a novel genetic experiment. Every such event is a
: potential answer to a problem faced in the environment. They could even be
: answers to problems that no mind knew was there.

: Near perfect replication plus natural selection is an algorithm*, and it runs
: everywhere, all the time.

: There are more replicators than there are GMs therefore the GMs are out
: numbered.

: *My understanding is that an algorithm gives guaranteed-correct answers in
: finite time so its not technically an algorithm. Its more of a massively
: parallel heuristic.

My question is what's your basis for arguing a Gravemind, even if it's not the collective intelligence of all the Flood (which I'm almost certain it is), does not or cannot have the processing power to keep up with this algorithm or heuristic?

You cannot fall off the floor.



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Flood and evolutionscarab 2/7/12 8:47 p.m.
     Great post!ZackDark 2/7/12 9:01 p.m.
           Re: Great post!scarab 2/7/12 9:37 p.m.
                 Re: Great post!uberfoop 2/7/12 10:24 p.m.
     Re: Flood and evolutionkanbo 2/7/12 9:35 p.m.
           Its independent of any fictionscarab 2/7/12 9:42 p.m.
                 Re: Its independent of any fictionkanbo 2/7/12 10:50 p.m.
                       No real spoilersscarab 2/8/12 1:34 a.m.
                             Re: No real spoilers? eh...General Vagueness 2/9/12 11:42 a.m.
     Re: Flood and evolutionFlynn J Taggart 2/7/12 9:40 p.m.
           Re: Flood and evolutionscarab 2/7/12 9:59 p.m.
                 Night guysscarab 2/7/12 10:00 p.m.
                 Regarding IsolationJDQuackers 2/8/12 8:09 a.m.
                 Re: Flood and evolutionStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/8/12 8:32 a.m.
                 Re: Flood and evolutionyakaman 2/8/12 1:03 p.m.
     This thread is gold. *NM*Postmortem 2/8/12 9:09 a.m.
     Genetic space is not a constraint...Arithmomaniac 2/8/12 1:43 p.m.
           Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...scarab 2/10/12 2:21 a.m.
                 Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...JDQuackers 2/10/12 7:13 a.m.
                       Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...scarab 2/10/12 8:06 a.m.
                             Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...davidfuchs 2/10/12 8:59 a.m.
                                   Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...scarab 2/10/12 10:10 a.m.
                 Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...General Vagueness 2/10/12 10:10 p.m.
                 Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...Quirel 2/11/12 2:58 a.m.
                       Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...General Vagueness 2/11/12 11:02 a.m.
                             Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...Quirel 2/11/12 12:35 p.m.
                                   Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/11/12 12:38 p.m.
                                         Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...General Vagueness 2/11/12 1:07 p.m.
                                               Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/11/12 1:55 p.m.
                                                     Well...ZackDark 2/11/12 2:03 p.m.
                                                           Re: Well...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/11/12 2:11 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Well...ZackDark 2/11/12 2:13 p.m.
                                                     Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...General Vagueness 2/11/12 4:23 p.m.
                                                           Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/11/12 4:48 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...General Vagueness 2/11/12 5:24 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/11/12 8:09 p.m.
                                                                             Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...General Vagueness 2/11/12 10:20 p.m.
                                                                                   Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/12/12 9:25 a.m.
                                                                                         Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...General Vagueness 2/12/12 4:58 p.m.
                                                                                               Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/12/12 5:19 p.m.
     If there's no "cure" to the Flood...davidfuchs 2/8/12 3:10 p.m.
           Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/8/12 3:42 p.m.
                 Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...ZackDark 2/8/12 4:36 p.m.
                       Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Hoovaloov 2/8/12 4:42 p.m.
                             Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...ZackDark 2/8/12 4:57 p.m.
                                   Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...davidfuchs 2/8/12 5:23 p.m.
                                   Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/8/12 6:07 p.m.
                                         Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Bry 2/8/12 8:09 p.m.
                                               Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/8/12 8:30 p.m.
                                                     Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Bry 2/8/12 10:03 p.m.
                                                           Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 5:38 a.m.
                                                     Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Quirel 2/8/12 10:46 p.m.
                                                           Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 5:41 a.m.
                                                                 Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...davidfuchs 2/9/12 8:00 a.m.
                                                                       Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 8:02 a.m.
                                                                             Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...Bry 2/9/12 10:30 a.m.
                                                                                   Well, crap.Quirel 2/9/12 10:37 a.m.
                                                                                         Re: Well, crap.Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/9/12 11:46 a.m.
                                                                                               Re: Well, crap.Quirel 2/9/12 5:06 p.m.
     Re: Flood and evolutionGeneral Vagueness 2/9/12 11:37 a.m.
           Re: Flood and evolutionscarab 2/10/12 7:48 a.m.
                 Re: Flood and evolutionZackDark 2/10/12 5:04 p.m.
                       Re: Flood and evolutionStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/10/12 5:19 p.m.
                             Re: Flood and evolutionZackDark 2/10/12 5:28 p.m.
                                   Re: Flood and evolutionStephen L. (SoundEffect) 2/10/12 6:08 p.m.
                 Re: Flood and evolutionGeneral Vagueness 2/10/12 7:43 p.m.
                 Re: Flood and evolutionGeneral Vagueness 2/10/12 10:25 p.m.



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