Theme: Causality

EVOLUTION IS JUST CALCULATION AND IT”S FAST

The universe appears to be constructed in binary at different frequencies. The frequencies in four bits producing eight dimensions of over two hundred possibilities. The fundamental forces out of four. All matter is constructed of only thee computable bits. All life in only four bits. And we write software with 16 bits just to make it easier for us to comprehend. The C language has only 32 keywords. We write all the English language in 26 bits (characters). We speak English language with only 44 sounds. And speech is infinitely calculable (unlimited).

We can calculate by speech and organize our behavior. But that’s just an extension of every combination in evolutionary history.

Bacteria (prokaryotes) reproduce (divide) between once every 12 minutes and once every 24 hours. And so the average lifespan of a bacterium is around 12 hours or so.

Bacteria have between 130 kbp to over 14 Mbp. And while Eukaryotes (with nucleus) generally use point mutations, while prokaryotes (bacteria etc w/o nucleus) can capture or discard entire genes (sets).

There are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water. There are approximately 5×1030 bacteria on Earth, forming a biomass which exceeds that of all plants and animals.

Errors in replication (reproduction) are random, with longer genomes having more opportunities for change. (number of computations)

Errors in replication occur in parallel (parallel computation)

Sexual Reproduction Rapidly Increases sharing of new genomes (recombinant computation.)

Sexual SELECTION rapidly increases sharing of new beneficial genomes.

As life evolves in complexity the rate of evolution increases. But we trade off rates of reproduction (bacteria) for energy consumption (advanced life).

So no. the universe produces a hierarchy of increasingly complex combinatorics (combinations) from energetic vibrations to sub-particles, to particles to elements, to molecules, to bio-molecules, organelle, cells, tissues, organs, systems, organisms, sentience, awareness, consciousness, speech, and calculates in massively parallel, and recombines gains in entropy (energy), through reproduction (communication, transfer), at rates that are terrifyingly rapid.

The simple neural cells in your body from your nerves to your brain come in just three variations from minuscule granule cells to terribly long (toe to brain) nerve cells. Your brain is able to sense, perceive integrate, and predict the world around you, and then choose alternative predictions (imaginations) by using 100 billion neurons and trillions and trillions of dendrites in massive parallel.

There are about 54 regions neo cortex composed of 1,000,000–2,000,000 cortical columns, each composed of 100,000,000 cortical minicolumns with up to 110 neurons each, together having 100,000,000,000 neurons, with about 1000 dendrites per neuron and 1000 synapses per neuron or ~1.5×10^14 synapses.

And there are billions of people on this earth. And look what we are calculating and acting, to change the universe together.

So massive parallelization and massive computation even by random error calculate absurdly fast, in general producing great leaps when a new opportunity is exploited by evolution.

So no. Life forms very quickly just like all molecules form very quickly because it’s all just parallel computation by trial and error calculating improvements in the capture of energy from entropy, and then distributing that new technology by reproduction.

Billions if not trillions of parallel computations ever few minutes to hours by every single organism, recombining through asexual capture of sexual reproduction to compute increasingly superior means of capturing energy.

It will happen wherever it can as fast as it can and it’s fast.

It’s trivially easy for the universe to produce life IF it has the time. The problem appears to be that the vast majority of the universe is an irradiated wasteland. So it’s not even vaguely surprising that life and advanced life evolve – it’s as deterministic as gravity. What’s surprising is that there is a spot in this galaxy that’s dying already that isn’t an irradiated wasteland. I mean, a safe place in the galactic suburbs, between spiral arms, a certain kind of sun, a certain distance, a Jupiter to protect us, a moon to keep the core liquid, and a liquid core that protects us from radiation.

Life requires:

Available Energy (the sweet spot)

The Capture and storage of energy

Growth (transformation of energy)

Reproduction (reproduction of transformation of energy)

Reaction to the world around it (‘irritability’)

There are no problems with Darwinism. None. Zero. It’s just calculation.

BTW: the moron at yale who last came up with this nonsense-argument is a theologian not a mathematician biologist or physicist – or even philosopher.