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From: richieb@bony1.bony.com (Richard Bielak)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: computer life?
Keywords: Survival, instincts
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.180803.5672@bony1.bony.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 18:08:03 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.213835.27074@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb27.134800.18153@news.larc.nasa.gov> <1991Feb27.150208.27855@mp.cs.niu.edu> <2179@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <1991Mar11.165932.19507@news.larc.nasa.gov> <4149@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: richieb@bony1.UUCP (Richard Bielak)
Organization: Bank of New York
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In article <4149@aipna.ed.ac.uk> cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>In article <1991Mar11.165932.19507@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>>In article <2179@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> carsup@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Fisher Library support) writes:
>
>>>Has anyone any Proof that life itself was not designed? I think not.
>
>>   We don't have any proof that life wasn't designed, but we do have proof
>>that it does evolve.  It's possible that random evolution isn't completely
>>a random process, but if so this is something that Man can't duplicate (owing
>>to not being omnipotent, etc.)   So it's not something we can discuss 
>>intelligently.
>
>Only if you presume that if life was designed, then it must have been
>designed by an omnipotent omniscient supernatural being. This seems a
>hugely unnecessary presumption, especially given that it seems within
>the bounds of possibility that it might (on the other hand) have been
>"designed" by evolution, i.e., a natural process.
>

If life was designed by some being, I would hardly call him omnipotent
or supernatural. To me it looks like life is one great hack! To
quote George Carlin: everything that lives, dies!

I think there is a serious problem in the design. :-)

...richie


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