Technology and Evolution
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:12 am
I just wanted to ask a question on where you stand on technology and evolution.
Everything in the world of technology is based on Input and Output, whether it be, data transmission (computer chips/processors/circuits/, networking/communications), whether it be in automotive or anything else, all technology is based on it. There are the physical components which are designed to perform specific input and output processes, lets used computers since they are a good example of it. Chips such as TTL chips found on PC's or CMOS found on laptops for example, they are built from semi-conductor devices. These semi-conductors form Transistors which are embedded as physical components inside the chip that each have differant physical connections to underline what the chip should be performing or how processing of I/O of (bits) should be done. I am not going further with details on this, because I am just trying to make a point here. Now computers perform just like a human, they have the brain of the computer ie: composed of the hard drive, memory and CPU. The Motherboard which interconnects all of these together like a body with bus lines (like nerves in your body) that include controllers which control communications of data between the CPU and the initial device. You initially have two layers here, the hardware and you have the software. The software is developement tools which are used to program these chips, (micro-assembly language, c programming up to java) .
These programming languages essentially were designed produce a certain "function"/s which is electrically/physically transmitted through conductors at a frequency which on the physical level tell the chip what it should be doing, in the end, tell it what function it should perform--as opposed to no function at all.
What is happening here is that you have a base for something, a physical component, you have the actual language which is designed to talk with the hardware, and to talk with that hardware, you need to know how to talk to it, using that language and know what components will be talking to each other. Nothing will talk/communicate unless the hardware is laid out and a programmer is behind the wheel communicating directly or indirectly with the hardware side. To explain what that component is going to perform, you cannot explain it merely by it physical appearance or even if you could see how pulses of electricity(formed by the electrons flowing through the copper wire) (bits) are going into and out the chips etc...
You still wouldn't have any clue as to what is going on. I mean, you would never be able to figure out what its doing without looking at the programmers code or the running application, and some programming code is still pritty complex, and it is hard to read, to know whats happening inside that code, sometimes you gotta ask the programmer/coder what the hell is going on, because its his own "unique" code. Ofcourse there is rules you must follow in a language such as syntax and what the capabilities of the program language are, it will be hard to get, but eventially you will understand the function of the program. Ofcourse, no program would be written without an intended purpose, otherwise, it would just be a waste of time.
All in all, the computer has evolved in a sense, it has emerged from the beginning from the discovery of the first telephone(bell) to semi-conductors to nano-technology to fiber-optics etc...All technologies I believe, in a sense evolved to what computer capabilities are today. But, NEVER have they ever evolved without any intelligent input behind them. Computers can be explained in a natural sense, right down to its nano-size components and even down to its atomic structure.
So, to get down to my question:
Computers are a natural component, created by humans who are also natural. Cells composed of DNA are millions of time more complex than a computer. The DNA as opposed to a semi-conductor in a computer also has an atomic structure.
Now, ofcouse, nowadays, we use the term "evolution" for everything, this and that evolved and yaa, it became what it is now.
How can evolution miss the part about "intelligence" completely and prescribe it to random processes which are not evident in everything else but darwinian evolution itself?
Everything in the world of technology is based on Input and Output, whether it be, data transmission (computer chips/processors/circuits/, networking/communications), whether it be in automotive or anything else, all technology is based on it. There are the physical components which are designed to perform specific input and output processes, lets used computers since they are a good example of it. Chips such as TTL chips found on PC's or CMOS found on laptops for example, they are built from semi-conductor devices. These semi-conductors form Transistors which are embedded as physical components inside the chip that each have differant physical connections to underline what the chip should be performing or how processing of I/O of (bits) should be done. I am not going further with details on this, because I am just trying to make a point here. Now computers perform just like a human, they have the brain of the computer ie: composed of the hard drive, memory and CPU. The Motherboard which interconnects all of these together like a body with bus lines (like nerves in your body) that include controllers which control communications of data between the CPU and the initial device. You initially have two layers here, the hardware and you have the software. The software is developement tools which are used to program these chips, (micro-assembly language, c programming up to java) .
These programming languages essentially were designed produce a certain "function"/s which is electrically/physically transmitted through conductors at a frequency which on the physical level tell the chip what it should be doing, in the end, tell it what function it should perform--as opposed to no function at all.
What is happening here is that you have a base for something, a physical component, you have the actual language which is designed to talk with the hardware, and to talk with that hardware, you need to know how to talk to it, using that language and know what components will be talking to each other. Nothing will talk/communicate unless the hardware is laid out and a programmer is behind the wheel communicating directly or indirectly with the hardware side. To explain what that component is going to perform, you cannot explain it merely by it physical appearance or even if you could see how pulses of electricity(formed by the electrons flowing through the copper wire) (bits) are going into and out the chips etc...
You still wouldn't have any clue as to what is going on. I mean, you would never be able to figure out what its doing without looking at the programmers code or the running application, and some programming code is still pritty complex, and it is hard to read, to know whats happening inside that code, sometimes you gotta ask the programmer/coder what the hell is going on, because its his own "unique" code. Ofcourse there is rules you must follow in a language such as syntax and what the capabilities of the program language are, it will be hard to get, but eventially you will understand the function of the program. Ofcourse, no program would be written without an intended purpose, otherwise, it would just be a waste of time.
All in all, the computer has evolved in a sense, it has emerged from the beginning from the discovery of the first telephone(bell) to semi-conductors to nano-technology to fiber-optics etc...All technologies I believe, in a sense evolved to what computer capabilities are today. But, NEVER have they ever evolved without any intelligent input behind them. Computers can be explained in a natural sense, right down to its nano-size components and even down to its atomic structure.
So, to get down to my question:
Computers are a natural component, created by humans who are also natural. Cells composed of DNA are millions of time more complex than a computer. The DNA as opposed to a semi-conductor in a computer also has an atomic structure.
Now, ofcouse, nowadays, we use the term "evolution" for everything, this and that evolved and yaa, it became what it is now.
How can evolution miss the part about "intelligence" completely and prescribe it to random processes which are not evident in everything else but darwinian evolution itself?