Re: Design-for-self-assembly and intervention

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:40:15 -0500

In my first posting of this message, the first line of my response to Brian
started with a ">". To avoid confusion I'm just reposting, with the
(potential for) incorrect attribution fixed.

Brian writes

>I believe that Bill's view is that God could be intervening in
>an undetectable way by the ever so slight "tweaking" of trajectories
>to be sure that particular attractors are located. I think Goodwin
>would probably say that such tweaking isn't necessary. This would,
>I suppose, depend upon how strong the attractors are and also how
>"close" they are.