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- From: simon@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Simon Clippingdale)
- Subject: Re: TIME cover story
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.204426.26817@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <1hlcnmINNkrb@agate.berkeley.edu> <1680@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:44:26 GMT
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- In article <1680@tdat.teradata.COM> swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen) writes:
- >In article <1hlcnmINNkrb@agate.berkeley.edu>, philjohn@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
- >
- >|> Moreover, TIME said that "many, perhaps most, evolutionary
- >|> biologists" now believe that "the coming of highly intelligent
- >|> life was close to inevitable," because of a supposed inherent
- >|> tendency of evolution to favor "behavioral flexibility," which
- >|> demands "complex information processing - smarts."
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- > I think that TIME must have been looking for this sort of statement.
- > I have never seen any such position stated by any of the leading researchers
- > in evolution. I have never even seen such a statement in any refereed journal.
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- I think one has to be highly suspicious of any supposed science writer
- who uses referential absurdities like describing contemporary Man as
- "highly intelligent life", right along with those who use phrases like
- "with the advanced technology Man now has" or "the developed world".
-
- Maybe "the coming of highly intelligent life was close to inevitable"
- but then we came along instead.
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- Cut to Lionel on camera 2 for cheap shot about `evolutionists'.
-
- Cheers
-
- Simon
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