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Comment author: timtyler 14 November 2011 02:14:53PM *  -1 points [-]

There is a significant difference between intelligence and evolution if you apply intelligence to the improvement of evolutionary designs:

  • Intelligence is goal-oriented.
  • Intelligence can think ahead.
  • Intelligence can jump fitness gaps.
  • Intelligence can engage in direct experimentation.
  • Intelligence can observe and incorporate solutions of other optimizing agents.

Much of this seems pretty inaccurate. The first three points are true, but not realy the issue - and explaning why would go uncomfortably close to the topic I am forbidden from talking about - but for the last two points, surely every organism is its own experiment, and mutualistic symbiosis allows creatures to use the results of experiments performed by members of other species.

Intelligence does make some differences, but not really these differences.

Comment author: jimrandomh 14 November 2011 03:26:03PM 1 point [-]

You won't explain because the explanation is a neighbor of a topic that you were once asked to shut up about, three years ago, because the conversation had gotten repetitive? I think that's being too deferential.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 November 2011 05:40:01PM *  4 points [-]

I think that's being too deferential.

You really interpreted the move as deferential? Or is that you being tactful?

Comment author: timtyler 14 November 2011 03:49:51PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks for that - but for now I'll continue to go with what the site's moderator said.

I am not refusing to explain - the explanation I would offer now is much the same as it was back then. Anyone interested can go and look at the topic that I was forbidden from further discussing.

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