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>1) We've emphasized here the differences between the Newtonian
>view and the principle of least action and quantum mechanics.
>Yet, Darwinian evolution is very mechanistic and Newtonian.
>Perhaps I better explain this a little since "mechanistic"
>can mean different things. Mechanistic as a world view means
>generally that everything is, in the end, reducible to the
>motion of elementary particles [as a sidelight, I recall that
>Denton defined mechanistic as algorithmic, but this is not
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Oops, this should read Dennett (Darwin's Dangerous Idea)
Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Applied Mechanics
The Ohio State University
"God forbid that we should give out a dream of
our own imagination for a pattern of the world"
-- Francis Bacon