From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 12:33:02 MST
Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> I can't decide if this is a brilliant idea or totally hare-brained. (I
> incline to the former, since I was playing around with it myself, as the
> quantum Library of Babel, a few years ago until Paul Davies told me it was
> a waste of time.) Heed the words of Johnjoe (*Johnjoe*? yes, friends,
> Johnjoe):
>
> http://www.surrey.ac.uk/qe/Outline.htm
I'm rather sceptical; there are other possibilities for how adaptive
mutations could be favored (such as intron libraries of inactive
enzyme-parts, biased fitness landscapes) and lots of microbial tricks
like plasmiodes that could look like unexpected adaptation. This site
does score at a medium level of the crackpot index, even if it is
better than many sites I have seen. In the end it is just promoting
the good old quantum faith that since we don't understand the mind or
evolution, then they must be quantum.
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