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B. Lane Robertson (metaphy@hotmail.com)
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>The "death instinct" is most likely a good
>exploration of darwinistic theory. My bias is
>Lamarkian. That is, I see the system proposed by
>dichotomized life/ death to represent-- rather than
>a promotion of survival, as life instinct-- a
>self-negating system which requires "mutation" as an
>active force for the promulgation of the individual
>within the species.
>
>The memetic resolution of the paradox represented by
>"death as necessary for survival" is that the system
>represented by chance recombination and competition
>be overthrown for the ordered, and cooperative,
>survival of that which most efficiently and
>consistently does as it's form suggests in such a
>way that its unity over-rides the systematic entropy
>of variations on this theme whose competitions
>inefficiently and in a chance fashion merely mimic
>the recombinations which naturally (efficiently and
>consistently) result in this design.
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>B. Lane Robertson
>Indiana, USA
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