@dan b,
Evolution is much more than change.
Change takes place without Language... i.e. erosion, freezing, radioactivity... no code required.
If those things evolved, then we would note a different kind of erosion, or freezing, or radioactivity that took place in the distant past, but no longer exist. We would have different types of erosion, freezing, and radioactivity in our current time than the types that existed long ago... but we don't. They're exactly the same now as they were then.
But Life, and anything else with code, evolves. That's because code is always a representation of a thought from a mind. As that thought passes from one mind to the next, it evolves, picking up new additional thoughts from the minds it passes through. By the time my thought moves from me to you, and then another, and another... it becomes a different thought than the one originally transmitted upon the code that originally represented it.
Proof of this lies in the fact you will use a different code to reply back, even if you completely agree. You will not simply cut, copy, paste my original thought back to me. You will add to it, forcing it to evolve, thus becoming a new thought shared between us. It will never be the same original thought ever again.
Code always represent thoughts from a mind. And one big difference between thought and chaos is that chaos does not duplicate itself just by looking at it. Thoughts are duplicated just by looking at them. Now you have my thoughts along with me. I'm sure to duplicate yours sent back... at the very moment I view your reply. The duplication takes place in the mind. Mind doesn't duplicate chaos.
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Fido;124478 wrote:Did you know that human beings begin life as human beings and through their culture become sub human, or inhuman...Figure that out...
I like that Fido.