Category: A-PR Hypothesis
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Glossary
A abiogenesis — scientific term for the generation of life from inorganic matter, as distinguished from “spontaneous generation” (e.g. maggots arising spontaneously from rotting meat), which was disproven by Louis Pasteur; today refers to hypotheses about the chemical origin of life, as from a primordial sea, via self-replicating molecules abduction — “an inspired inference,” term…
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If Microbes begat Mind: origins of life and intelligence
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in A-PR Hypothesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, artificial life, Baldwin Effect, Blog, Charles Darwin, collaborative autonomy, collaborative intelligence, consciousness, cross-category, Daedalus, design, design science, earthDECKS, ecosystem, evolution, Fibonacci Numbers in Nature, Gaia Hypothesis, games, If Microbes begat Mind, innovation networks, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, learning, mavericks, microbes, mind, next generation social networks, origin of life, origin of multicellularity, Origin of Species, pattern recognition, Prisoner’s Dilemma, simulations, struggle for existence, symbiosis, synergetics, Tragedy of the Commons, What Daedalus told Darwin, Zann GillNo one would explain scientific progress as randomly generated hypotheses from which the community selects the fittest to survive. So why do we accept such an arbitrary view of evolution? There was indeed a Designer of life – life designed itself in the context of, and interacting with, its environment. The origin of life is…