RE: Things that don't evolve

All aspects of the physical universe are evolving. Irreversibility is
the name of the game! However, nonphysical concepts, e.g., the
transcendental number pi, are not aspects of the physical universe. The
very existence of death is the very presence of an evolving scenario for
all living organisms. He who solves the problem of life will
simultaneously solve the problem of death.

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Janice Matchett
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:33 AM
To: Chris Barden; Gregory Arago
Cc: ASA list
Subject: Re: Things that don't evolve

At 08:05 AM 3/14/2006, Chris Barden wrote:

Mathematical constants and static formulae come to mind.. I don't
believe I've ever heard anyone mention "mathematical evolution".

It's important, I think, to distinguish between evolutions that have
or are thought to have scientific mechanisms to explain them
(biological, planetary, galactic, etc.) and mere rhetorical
"evolution" that just means "somebody read this, and did this other
thing, which got somebody else thinking about this new technology".
Unless all progress is to be considered social evolution... a "theory
of everything" must have some weight behind it for it to be any more
than a tautology.

@ I googled this question to see what I'd come up with. ~ Janice

Google Results 1 - 10 of about 2,110,000 for evolution
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://www.answers.com/evoluti
on%26r%3D67> is the singularity
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://www.answers.com/singula
rity%26r%3D67> ?.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=evolution+is+the+singularity%3F
Received on Tue Mar 14 09:38:30 2006