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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your brain analogy is problematic. Random mutation is exactly how natural selection works. And the dame with neural networks. What you are missing is that if successful random changes propagate via a feedback loop then great things can come out of randomness.

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You're talking in extremes, OP. The brain was not thrown together as a matter of chance. It was built by genetic code from billions of years of natural selection and evolution.
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So which one is it?  Random chance, or not?[/quote]

These two things (a series of random chances at the micro level provide some evolutionary advantage at the macro level)are reconciled neatly by evolutionary theory.  If you're actually interested in getting educated in the topic (and it's fascinating, certainly more so than the scholasticism we're engaging in here), you should get a copy of this and read it:

http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Watchmaker-Evidence-Evolution-Universe/dp/0393315703

It's a fantastic popular treatment of the subject.[/quote]

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