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Dec 31 2015 03:08pm
Life is based on chemistry
Life undergoes evolution
Can any chemistry (that gets increasingly complex thus avoiding equillibrium) undergo Darwinian evolution?
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Dec 31 2015 03:18pm
Quote (minasole @ Dec 31 2015 04:08pm)
Life is based on chemistry
Life undergoes evolution
Can any chemistry (that gets increasingly complex thus avoiding equillibrium) undergo Darwinian evolution?


anything that can reproduce, die, and is under selective pressures can evolve. i dislike the usage of "increasingly complex" in this context as it implies a necessity to become more complex when in fact selective pressures tend to do the opposite and leave "specialized" organisms to propagate in their given niche (on a smaller scale at least).
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Humans probably evolved but oddly it seems they are currently de-evolving and the use of a brain is highly debateable as "increasing complex".
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Humans probably evolved but oddly it seems they are currently de-evolving and the use of a brain is highly debateable as "increasing complex".


It's all skynet's plan, send shitty technology back in time to infiltrate the human species by appearing as helpful devices. Slowly humanity depends more and more on technology, and technology advances while humans are slowly devolving into a race of semi-aware masses of cellulite and cancer

Video games are merely a test of a human's ability to combat artificial intelligence in a war like environment, skynet is coming soon to a device near you,most likely in your pocket
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Jan 15 2016 07:20am
Evolution isn’t about creating higher organisms or more complicated. Its about creation of more sustainable organisms or features, because the final organisms or features did exactly this: they survived.
Exactly in the way that complex organic reactions after a long time will increasingly favor those reaction that can sustain themselves, because the resulting reactions did exactly this. They survived, and they did it for a reason.

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It's all skynet's plan, send shitty technology back in time to infiltrate the human species by appearing as helpful devices. Slowly humanity depends more and more on technology, and technology advances while humans are slowly devolving into a race of semi-aware masses of cellulite and cancer

Video games are merely a test of a human's ability to combat artificial intelligence in a war like environment, skynet is coming soon to a device near you,most likely in your pocket


Logical, so it's probably true.
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Jan 15 2016 05:51pm
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It's all skynet's plan, send shitty technology back in time to infiltrate the human species by appearing as helpful devices. Slowly humanity depends more and more on technology, and technology advances while humans are slowly devolving into a race of semi-aware masses of cellulite and cancer

Video games are merely a test of a human's ability to combat artificial intelligence in a war like environment, skynet is coming soon to a device near you,most likely in your pocket


Since you cant undo entropy, going back in quote, "time" isn't possible... There is only a now. Past, future, and time is just a man made phenomenon to describe entropy as it gets more chaotic versus less chaotic.

Since space and time (aka entropy, or we can dub it "now") are intertwined, and if all of space exists at this moment, then all of "now" (which was entropy heading into further chaos).

So if skynet does happen, it means that the universe (earth) is getting more chaotic, and the result of that chaos, could be skynet (as many other things). And if that didn't make sense to you, using your terminology, skynet can only happen in the quote, "future".
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Jan 17 2016 09:51am
Quote (minasole @ 31 Dec 2015 17:08)
Life is based on chemistry
Life undergoes evolution
Can any chemistry (that gets increasingly complex thus avoiding equillibrium) undergo Darwinian evolution?


Yes.
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Jan 18 2016 04:40am
Quote (minasole @ Dec 31 2015 01:08pm)
Life is based on chemistry
Life undergoes evolution
Can any chemistry (that gets increasingly complex thus avoiding equillibrium) undergo Darwinian evolution?


Life is also about the choices you make, don't forget ;)
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Jan 18 2016 06:20am
Quote (lodd222 @ Jan 18 2016 03:40am)
Life is also about the choices you make, don't forget ;)


Life isn't about anything.

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