This morning, I want to start with this extract from an interview with Werner Erhard by Norman Bodek from the mid-eighties. Imagine the oceans as an evolutionary space. We start out with a bit of protoplasm in a tropical, primeval sea. We then add eons and eons of time. Eventually life will appear. Then, after more time, life will fill the whole sea—from top to bottom. After enough time, whatever possibilities existed for evolution in the sea will be used up. Evolution in the sea may continue, but it produces weird variations on possibilities already tried. The whole possibility of "evolution in the sea" eventually becomes saturated.
#1389 - Tiktaalik
#1389 - Tiktaalik
#1389 - Tiktaalik
This morning, I want to start with this extract from an interview with Werner Erhard by Norman Bodek from the mid-eighties. Imagine the oceans as an evolutionary space. We start out with a bit of protoplasm in a tropical, primeval sea. We then add eons and eons of time. Eventually life will appear. Then, after more time, life will fill the whole sea—from top to bottom. After enough time, whatever possibilities existed for evolution in the sea will be used up. Evolution in the sea may continue, but it produces weird variations on possibilities already tried. The whole possibility of "evolution in the sea" eventually becomes saturated.