Re: >Re: Design Flaw in the Brain

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:39:05 -0600

Hi Eduardo,

I wrote:
>> Re: Design Flaw in the Brain
>>
>> But according to Terrance, the brain, being underspecified (informationally)
>> engages in a great survival of the fittest game among the neurons as it is
>> being formed.

At 10:57 AM 10/31/97 -0600, Eduardo G. Moros wrote:
>Ok., but survival of the fittest does no necessarily mean macroevolution, it
>could simply mean stasis.

If, as Deacon relates, a large percentage of the neurons are dying off, it
can't be described as stasis. Also apparently different neurons died in my
brain than in yours or anyone else's

glenn

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