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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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Universal Darwinism In view of recent progress
in several disciplines, in which the Darwinian paradigm keeps recurring at
different levels of organization (species, immune system, brain), it seems
reasonable to assume that Darwinism is a universal principle, not limited to
Biology. The British psychologist Henry Plotkin actually believes that
Darwinism is likely to become the basis of all science, the idea spreading
beyond biological evolution. "Universal
Darwinism" will be a theory based on Darwinism but general enough to
encompass everything. A likely candidate structure for an empirical science is
one based on the concepts of replicator (an entity that can make copies of
itself) and interactor (an entity that can propagate replicators in space and
conserve them in time while interacting with the environment). The presence of
this combination is evidence that evolutionary algorithms are at work. They
occur in life, in the brain, in the immune system, in memes. Back to the beginning of the chapter "The Physics Of Life" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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