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ANNOTATION:
direction of evolution
> allows us to introduce a kind of objective quantitative measure of
> evolution and distinguish between evolution in the positive
> direction, progress, and ... the negative direction, regress.
where is the objective measure? i can't find it.
Author: Carl Murphy (cgmurphy [at] adnc.com)
Date: Apr 19, 1996
direction of evolution
In my view, evolution in a metasystem can have no single definition of progress or regress.
Your "objective" measure seems to be a God's eye view of what you believe to be progress.
Others may not agree on your meaning of progress. Therefore, a single metasystem may not
be feasible (or expressible) because there will be no agreement on what postive or negative
"direction" means.
Author: Francis Heylighen
Date: Aug 23, 1996
REPLY:
See my text on the "Direction of Evolution" for a refutation of the
idea that evolution has no direction, and a way to "measure" an objective increase in fitness.
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