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Author Topic:   update: freedom found, natural selection theory pushed aside
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Message 1 of 2 (474136)
07-05-2008 7:41 PM


I posted here before about Dubois' theory of strong anticipation, and how it supports the creationist view of things. Now I have an update on how that theory is changing scientists' view of things towards intelligent design theory.
In the big picture, creation is a free act, so I have been looking for a theory that supports the fact that freedom is real. Such a theory would inevitably lead to think towards intelligent design theory, or so to say, thinking about things coming to be as a consequence of decisions leads to thinking in terms of intelligent design.
So in the detailed picture, the theory I found which confirms freedom is real, is "strong anticipation" theory by Daniel Dubois. Basically what this theory states is that things have a future, and they compute their next state with that future. With strong anticipation, the anticipation is embedded in the laws of nature, weak anticipation refers to making a predictive model in the brain.
Somebody else named Edwina Taborsky then applied this theory to the biological realm and found that:
"The semiosic biological system is not a random or mechanical process but an informed, reasoned and self-controlled process."
"Any randomness is internal and reduced to zero by the time a ”best solution’ is chosen by the system. The emergent model is immediately functional and there is no testing by struggle as required in the thesis of Natural Selection."
Biological Organisms as Semiosic Systems: the importance of strong and weak anticipation
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Message 2 of 2 (474247)
07-07-2008 8:38 AM


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