DNA structure
there are 3 billion base pairs in the human DNA. How incredible. But coincidence or deliberate?
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ElRengo · 70-79, M
"But coincidence or deliberate?"
" ...but would you say it's deliberate or by chance?"
With all my respect, my friend, this is what is called a false dilemma.
The opposite of chance is not agency.
That is a remaining of an old but stil pop mistook of concepts (Leo Da Vinci pointed at it when dismounted the world "raggioni" as causal).
"Chance" and material functionality as much as complexity are not absolute, both constrained. And they seem to necessarily coexist and interact.
To avoid posting an essay myself, I suggest you to explore what material "Degrees of Freedom" are (a concept taken from math but with a correlate in all the natural world).
" ...but would you say it's deliberate or by chance?"
With all my respect, my friend, this is what is called a false dilemma.
The opposite of chance is not agency.
That is a remaining of an old but stil pop mistook of concepts (Leo Da Vinci pointed at it when dismounted the world "raggioni" as causal).
"Chance" and material functionality as much as complexity are not absolute, both constrained. And they seem to necessarily coexist and interact.
To avoid posting an essay myself, I suggest you to explore what material "Degrees of Freedom" are (a concept taken from math but with a correlate in all the natural world).
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ElRengo · 70-79, M
@Millerdog
Sorry to say but the opposite is true.
When something already happened it´s "probability" is 1.
May be you should drop the comfort of some thoughts:
- That the material Universe is "made" of the same stuff as our reasoning tools or by some kind of afine Logos.
- That should by intuitive or close to individual "common sense".
And first things first, to update some ideas on what causality and chance may mean.
Not in our minds but out there.
Sorry to say but the opposite is true.
When something already happened it´s "probability" is 1.
May be you should drop the comfort of some thoughts:
- That the material Universe is "made" of the same stuff as our reasoning tools or by some kind of afine Logos.
- That should by intuitive or close to individual "common sense".
And first things first, to update some ideas on what causality and chance may mean.
Not in our minds but out there.
ElRengo · 70-79, M
@Millerdog
My dear friend, as you may already know I have the higher respect to each one´s faith and hopes.
And I have my own.
But I do it somehow like that one that once said: "I believe BECAUSE it´s absurd".
Please note that what you expect to happen (can´t say if right or wrong) it´s almost exactly the opposite of what Science had been finding out for the last (a bit more than) 400 years.
And that is since it exists as such and perhaps thats´why it exists.
About logic.........
Well, logic is a branch of Math.
And so formal what means that have not what is called an "ontological commitment".
What we already knew since it´s founder Aristotle, but THAT was forgotten or ommited by scholasticism, "rationalism", as much as by some actual "schools of thought".
That prefer to play with rethoric and call it logic.
Best best wishes.
My dear friend, as you may already know I have the higher respect to each one´s faith and hopes.
And I have my own.
But I do it somehow like that one that once said: "I believe BECAUSE it´s absurd".
Please note that what you expect to happen (can´t say if right or wrong) it´s almost exactly the opposite of what Science had been finding out for the last (a bit more than) 400 years.
And that is since it exists as such and perhaps thats´why it exists.
About logic.........
Well, logic is a branch of Math.
And so formal what means that have not what is called an "ontological commitment".
What we already knew since it´s founder Aristotle, but THAT was forgotten or ommited by scholasticism, "rationalism", as much as by some actual "schools of thought".
That prefer to play with rethoric and call it logic.
Best best wishes.
DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M
Note that part of the human DNA is the remaining genetic code from generations of infections from viruses.
Millerdog · 56-60, M
@DrSunnyTheSkeptic would you not say deliberate implies something like intelligent design? To me is does. That's just me though
DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M
@Millerdog By intelligent design I'd be more likely to believe ancient advanced aliens than anything else.
Millerdog · 56-60, M
@DrSunnyTheSkeptic i wonder where they came from🤔
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ElRengo · 70-79, M
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UnderLockDown · M
Deliberate.