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by plikan13 4120 days ago
> Couldn't agree more. Evolution as a process has no regard for simplicity or elegance. The solutions that Natural Selection "comes" up with are random. I guess you could say that all organisms have a design, but that the design is irrational.

Except of course that evolution comes up with solutions that are so clever and so intricate that we, with all our scientific brains, have barely scratched the surface of understanding it. Now if it acts intelligently, walks intelligently and quacks intelligently, then maybe we should just call it intelligent?
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api 4120 days ago
I spent a long time playing with genetic programming systems a number of years ago, and started to get an intuition for evolution and how it "thinks."

It can be thought of as an alien form of intelligence. It "learns" and "thinks" but not in a human-like way. It does not design things the way we do.

Argumentum ad Lovecraftium: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/

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thomasatethose 4120 days ago
sounds like the god galaxy from futurama, that bender talks with when he is lost in space.
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