byrnema comments on The Threat of Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: byrnema 05 August 2010 05:14:45PM 1 point [-]

In any case, what I wrote doesn't make sense, because I could not coherently specify which alternate reality I would be speaking of. (E.g., one in which humans didn't have technology? Why not?)

But sure, permitting the anthropomorphism, mechanisms have 'plans'. Evolution evolves things according to certain rules, and the results have patterns. These patterns are 'plans' built into the mechanism.

But if you meant to emphasize that evolution doesn't have plans in the sense of an end result it is trying to achieve through us in particular, there's no argument from me.