Narrow Gates of Inevitability

Posted on 2008-09-27 by Richard Careaga


My guess is that the narrow gates of life’s evolution do not restrict how often it happens as much as it restricts how often alternative foundations (like DNA) happen. There may be only a few basic ways to construct a self-evolved, extropic self-reproducing life form.  Once you have that, then possibilities open up. And if that narrow channel of evolution is true for life, it might also be true of intelligence. There may be only a few viable ways in which to evolve a mind that can be self-aware. And it may even hold for technological achievements.  Perhaps there are only a few ways for a mind to create a global network for the first time.

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