Re: Things that don't evolve

It cant be , today is 14/3
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Robert Schneider
  To: Alexanian, Moorad ; Janice Matchett ; Chris Barden ; Gregory Arago
  Cc: ASA list
  Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:21 PM
  Subject: Re: Things that don't evolve

  Today, 3.14, is "Pi Day"!

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Alexanian, Moorad
    To: Janice Matchett ; Chris Barden ; Gregory Arago
    Cc: ASA list
    Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:37 AM
    Subject: 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 is the singularity?.
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Received on Tue Mar 14 10:56:29 2006