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Subject: Re: The Sciences of the Artificial applied to Biology
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:04:32 -0700
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On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:38:41 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
wrote:

>I forgot to mention that he Sciences of the Artificial digs deep into
>why living things (even microscopic ones) have distinct organs and
>often components within such organs, versus the organism being a mass
>of tissue that somehow does everything.  The driver is efficiency and
>simplicity.
>
>This assumes that life has already emerged in some unspecified way,
>and goes from there.  This is a different approach than Dawkin's
>Blind-Watchmaker arguments.
>
>Joe
>
>
>Ref:  "Simon_Herbert_A_The_Sciences_of_the_Artificial_3rd_ed" - The
>Architecture of Complexity.  New copies are available from MIT Press.

Even single-cell critters have levels of intelligence. Some people
suggest some level of consciousness.

The book sounds cool.

Dawkin says he is an atheist above anything else. So he naturally
hides from anything that's not primitive neo-Darwinism.