Analog vs Digital (was Re: Is Scheme/Lisp somehow more "fundamental" than other languages?)

[David Brown]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:38:43PM -0800, Bob La Quey wrote:

>As a consequence I have thought a lot about this
>problem. Why, for instance, would evolution tolerate
>such an "obviously dysfunctional" disease.

<http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/11/88/index.html>

for example.  The current theory is that it is a consequence/tradeoff
of what makes creativity possible.  Creativity definitely definitively has
survival benefits.

Also look at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)>, a term used
to describe something that evolves in correlation to something else being
selected.

David