>* 22. GLENN:
>> The tracks may not be
>>random, the mutations are though. In a 3 dimensional cavern system, if you
>>are in a cavern of 16 feet diameter by 100 feet long with one small opening
>>at each end, you can only move 16 feet up or sideways before motion becomes
>>impossible. If you are moving in a random fashion, you will bump into the
>>wall. You path is only random within the cavern itself, not in the entire
>>limestone bed. Eventually your random path will take you to one of the
>>small exits. Once in that exit you are constrained to either move down the
>>exit into the next cavern or back into the one you left. Movement is
>>random, not the cavern! ...
>> in the above analogy, the walls represent the genomes that die! One
cannot
>>move in those directions so since the population can grow to fill the
>>cavern, they can't occupy niches inside the "dna phase space cavern
>>walls". But as the population fills the phase space of the cavern, some
>>will eventually lie near the exits and if isolated, will speciate (go into
>>the next cavern).
>
> [ CR: This is a clever, interesting analogy; do you know how Gould and
>Dennett, respectively (see my earlier post), would evaluate its technical
>plausibility? Just how convergent or divergent is evolutionary history? ]
Largely I think this is close to what the advocates of chaos theory applied
to biology like Stuart Kaufman would hold. However they treat Kaufman is
probably how they would evaluate this.
glenn
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