Perplexed in Peoria  wrote:

> "John Wilkins"  wrote in message
> news:cbnls7$2osd$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> > ... "design", a term which applies properly only when there
> > is a CNS, a memory store, and the capacity to internally represent
> > reality and make plans.
> 
> I don't mean to disrupt the flow of this discussion, but why,
> John, do you insist on a CNS?  I can readily see how those
> other requirements fit into your intentions for "design",
> in fact, I used them myself for the related idea of "strict
> teleology".  But I am at a loss as to how the CNS fits into
> your system.  Is it the C or the N that is crucial, or some
> synergism between them?

It is a post hoc observation that design occurs with so-endowed
organisms only. All else is tenuous metaphor.

But if you had a functional equivalent, fine.
-- 
Dr John Wilkins
john_SPAM{at}wilkins.id.au   http://wilkins.id.au
"Men mark it when they hit, but do not mark it when they miss" 
                                               - Francis Bacon
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