[extropy-chat] Wired article on Drexler

[Hara Ra]

Richard Dawkins makes this point abundantly in the books he writes. An 
example is the vertebrate eye. An engineered eye would put the layers (as 
seen from the lens) as retina, nerves, blood vessels. The vertebrate eye is 
backwards, and we have the bind spot where the nerves must pass through the 
retina to the brain. Unfortunately, there is no way back by the traditional 
evolutionary process due to the disadvantages of poor or nonexistent sight 
which were went through at the time Chordata evolved.

 > but I find it difficult to believe that random mutation and>natural 
selection just >happened to stumble onto the one and only way to>go about 
it; I have a hunch >intelligence can do better.

 >John K Clark     jonkc at att.net



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