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Cc: Jeevacationueevacation@gmail.com]
From: Martin Nowak
Sent: Tue 11/16/2010 6:09:43 PM
Subject: Re:

and i can set it to the most beautiful
and transcendent music
yet written

On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:46 AM,

wrote:

> defection is not necessarily bad. we think it's bad because locally > every species wants to preserve the status quo. but in the long run > defection might be necessary to lead to evolvability and complexity. > that's why after billions of years of evolution we still retain > within ourselves the ability to defect. > so i think the right question is not "what can we do to defend > ourselves against defection?" but rather "how much defection is > needed for evolvability?"

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