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- From: tom.foster@synapse.org (Tom Foster)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Non-Opinion
- Message-ID: <1405.1355.uupcb@synapse.org>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 08:08:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: tom.foster@synapse.org (Tom Foster)
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- BBS: Synapse BBS
- Date: 11-18-92 (21:44) Number: 1356
- From: LIONEL TUN Refer#: NONE
- To: ALL Recvd: NO
- Subj: Laying a trap Conf: (1355) UT-origins
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- LT>Please note, both Calculator and ChessMover are small (by
- LT>today's standard) programs, lets say about 2 to 4K for the
- LT>executable. Shreadsheet and ChessPlayer must obviously be
- LT>of a more substantial size (I can't remember how big Lotus
- LT>is). If you like, you can randomly modify the source code
- LT>and compiler, rather than the executables, if you think this
- LT>will make it less brittle. Random modification includes of
- LT>course random additions. You might prefer the source code
- LT>approach as the compiler will reject programs which will
- LT>not even compile, let alone run. If you wish to modify
- LT>the compiler, you can keep a copy of the old compiler to
- LT>compile it with.
-
- Both programs would become extinct because at the instance of
- random modification, the complier would choke, and the code
- would be useless. This points out how delicate the process of
- random selection is. Often, it can mean the end of a species.
-
- On a slightly different thread, My view is natural selection and
- evolution are probably the same, in that that hand of the
- creator is matter itself, that being the fabric of the universe,
- and consequently the fabric of God. This hand manifests itself a
- changes and adaptations to the organism and it's environment. In
- other words, the working of creation is the process of selection,
- because God and the stuff of the universe are the same, to
- satisfy the notion that god is omnipotent and omnipresent. This
- view goes beyond the narrow thought that everything must be
- an equation, or one way. In fact, we may well find out that
- there are dualistic natures to most things. In that we find
- the essence of non-opinion, - that two opposing having views
- may have at their root, one (or maybye two) distinct truths, of
- many possible.
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