Re: Free-will, interdependence

["Tim Gwinn" <***>]

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Judith,
> I think regardless of what kind of Frankenstein monsters we create, it
> is the decoding loop that will be the savior. There is a great deal they
> will not effectively commute with without a proper and gradual
> evolutionary and developmental learning interaction with nature. Unless
> the divergence from reality is incremental, so that it can construct its
> niche, I expect the reaction will be fatal.
>--snip--
>
> JK

These potential new organisms may not need to have a very elaborate internal
model. Without any prior selection pressures to moderate their internal
model, they are entirely free to be 'uncouth'. Depending on their metabolic
and other abilities, it may suffice that they distinguish their environment
into a spectra of only two classes: food and non-food, wherein the class of
food is comprised of, for example, anything of an organic nature. In the
long run, we might say that this will be self-defeating for them, but by
then there may be no biosphere left as we would recognize it.

Regards,
Tim