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From: tos@psc70.UUCP (Dr.Schlesinger)
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Subject: Re: the Goal of evolution
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Date: Thu, 1-May-86 19:15:28 EDT
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    Doesn't the very word **purpose** connote a consciousness, most
likely but not necessarily human, which wills a particular
cause/effect sequence. It seems to me that the discussion of any
process, e.g. evolution, which presumably is not so **willed** can
be related to **purpose** only in a sense in which that word means
nothing more than cause and effect. Whatchathink?

Tom Schlesinger, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, N.H. 03264
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