From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Sep 28 1999 - 13:06:50 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> Wrote:
>On the other hand, I know of at least one case where the flow of
>causality is reversed - flowers may be used to woo the fair, but flowers
>are (started out as being?) beautiful because they indicate healthy
>foraging grounds. So it's by no means certain.
It does back another iteration, flowers evolved to woo bugs. If we
knew nothing else we could deduct that insects must have a sense
of smell and color. Poetic mode on:
Do they have a primitive sense of beauty too? It's odd that two such
different types of creatures find the same object so appealing.
Poetic mode off.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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