XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: julianlzb87@gmail.com   
      
   On 14/09/2016 21:25, noname wrote:   
   > Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   >> On 9/13/2016 8:42 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> The 1 in a million coincidences get noticed.  The other 9999999 misses   
   >>> aren't noticed.   
   >>   
   >> The random mutations that guide evolution   
   >> roughly work on the same principle, that the   
   >> 1 in a million mutations get noticed, and   
   >> that the other 9999999 misses aren't noticed.   
   >> Mother Nature notices that 1 in a million   
   >> mutations offers some better chance at   
   >> survival and even blossoming, and that the   
   >> other 9999999 don't, or even can drive the   
   >> species to the ground. Sometimes success   
   >> can go wild and drive the species to the   
   >> ground, like the armour plates of dinosaurs,   
   >> or just the mere size of the whole animals, as   
   >> some dinosaurs in South America rise to   
   >> seven stories high and are essentially eating   
   >> machines. Scientists (and not even scientists,   
   >> but mere mortals) wonder how they can have   
   >> sex.   
   >>   
   >> Mental culture and religion essentially work   
   >> on the same principle, too, as 1 in a million   
   >> strivers hit the jackpot, so to speak, and   
   >> successfully start a trend in mental culture   
   >> or a religion, like in Buddhism, Daoism,   
   >> Jewish mythology, etc. Ditto for political   
   >> leaders, like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler,   
   >> Gandhi, Trump, etc. whilst the other   
   >> 9999999 don't get any traction and instead   
   >> drop into the dust bin of history.   
   >>   
   >> It's a brutal world.   
   >>   
   >> Tang Huyen   
   >>   
   >   
   > There are no random mutations.  None.  Everything is mutating, all the   
   > time.  Then people come along and look at the survivors and say they're the   
   > result of "random" mutations.  There's nothing "random" about it, those are   
   > the few of the infinite number of different kinds of survivors who actually   
   > survived.   
      
   Is there anything random at all?   
   I suspect it is just a name for things not yet understood.   
      
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