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Originally Posted by marvin_pa
As someone who has spent most of their life working with computer code, I'd be extremely suspicious of anything that didn't come with bugs! ;p
Yes, I'm an advocate of Darwin theory. But that theory still has a logic to it's function. Guess what a computer program is... yup, logic. And logic can & does embrace randomness*. Anything can theoretically be calculated & predicted - you just need access to all the variables involved... and that's the tricky bit.
*Randomness in computing circles is an interesting side-topic, insomuch as it's (a) very hard to produce a truly random sequence & (b) it's even harder to prove that a given sequence is truly random. Essentially, you're dealing with an infinite string of numbers. Which also means, we have no way to categorically prove that randomness in nature/the universe is truly random...
As for rogue (or benevolent) aliens being the source of life/universe/everything? It's a distinct possibility. But, who/what created those aliens?
Must have been a pan-galactic white mouse called Benji... 
Gosh, this is fun! |
Marvin,
Who-wee! Where to start?
I was a very occasional Basic coder in the early 1980’s and a C+(+) coder in the mid-late 1980’s (exchanging code, always crashing, with the Knoll boys — stunned that they were able to separate and display individual RGB channels — long story) so I’ve a
very limited experience with programming.
You’re right — I’ve yet to find a program without an
enormous number of bugs! I would say that bugs
defy logic when even the very best debugger returns clean coding — but the debugger is
always wrong, too, defying logic, errant tasks being the result. (Yes, I recognize that we’re speaking of two distinct types of ‘logic’ — just play along and humor me?)
In re Darwinian evolution: Because we’re unable to predict mutation, we see logic in the process only
after evolution has occurred. If there were any logic in evolutionary biology, we’d be able to predict logical outcomes… but we can’t. Evolution occurs in the minute mutations of a species, in a randomness inherent in each individual creature, dependent upon variables rather than consistencies. Even at a distance, we’re flummoxed when we find feathers upon dinosaur remnants and we’re forced to reevaluate forgone conclusions that defy the logical inferences of 10-minutes-past.
So I’ll leave programming logic in the dust for the moment and focus upon the reasoning beyond reason that are so crazily random in maths and sciences.
Does that make sense?