| > 'normal' occular-motor activation includes saccades
| > and drifts that completely-eliminate the so-called
| > "blind spot", which results from a Topological-Optim-
| > ization, not a "kludge".
|
| Saccades explain pigmental activation,
| not the blind spot.
Saccades and drifts are eye-movements
that continuously-alter the relative-posi-
tioning of the fovea with respect to the
stimulation reaching the fovea.
If these eye motions are eliminated, via,
say, applications of curarae to the occulor-
motor muscles, 'blindness' happens [the
visual image 'disappears'] be-cause the
visual apparatus is 'engineered' to key-up-
on =change= [and be-cause globally-inte-
grated TD E/I-minimization does the 'same',
eliminating 'all' irrelevant neural activation.]
| Blind spots are bad upon staring, cheap-
| per or not; the nerve should still be
| behind the retina.
Forgive me, Please, if I agree with the 'ev-
olutionary-engineer', and the results of its
billions of 'years' of work, instead of acqui-
escing to what you say 'must' be.
| > Contrary to the "a-bit-here-and-a-bit-there" 'pre-
| > sumption' with respect to Evolutionary dynamics,
| > Evolutionary dynamics operate on 'the' =whole=
| > Species 'blue-print' ['the' "genome"] =simultan-
| > eously= -- be-cause any modification either rend-
| > ers a "genome" instance either more-capable of
| > Surviving, or less-capable of Surviving, relative to
| > the sum of environmental factors, including the
| > behavioral stuff of other Living stuff.
|
| The species doesn't think of everything.
"The species" doesn't "think" of =any-
thing=.
Evolutionary dynamics are driven by the
one-way flow of energy, from order to
disorder, that is what's =described=
by 2nd Thermo [the Second Law of
Thermodynamics; "WDB2T".]
=All= of Life evolves in the 'same' way,
driven by WDB2T, in ways that literally
Direct Life to 'move' in 'the' anti-WDB2T-
Direction.
The result of such is that, overall, Life
'moves toward' increased-energy-avail-
ability, which 'sustains' Life.
For a vivid example of all of the above,
study plants' heliotrophism -- their grow-
ing in Directions that maximize their ac-
quisition of available sunlight. The more
they do such, the more energy they ac-
quire, and the better they Survive, even
in the midst of disease agents, which are,
themselves, doing the same anti-WDB2T
stuff, but in accord with species-'specific'
"plans".
Bacteria, for instance, activate their flag-
ella differentially with respect to nutrient-
concentration [energy] gradients, which
results in bacteria's ability to 'move toward'
increased-energy, which is 'moving' in
the anti-WDB2T-Direction.
=All= of Life, same-old, same-old.
| It will take as many kludges as it can get
| away with: illnesses come first; then come
| immunities.
When a 'kludge' is instantiated, it's =always=
instantiated with respect to a locally-occur-
ring 'movement' in the anti-WDB2T-Direc-
tion.
These dynamics 'see' only local WDB2T.
They're not, 'instantaneously', 'oracles' with
respect to all Possible WDB2T.
But, as Life proceeds, it experiences more-
widely 'within' the realm of all Possible
WDB2T, and the result of such is evolution
of "species" that're ever-more capable of
'moving toward' WDB2T in 'all' Possible
environmental circumstances.
Humans, for instance, can survive in
Arctic climates be-cause their nervous
systems are magnificantly-generalized
processors that can "learn" and "re-
member" strategies for staying-warm,
despite the cold of the external environ-
ment into which they've 'moved', which
'movement' is, itself, in an anti-WDB2T-
DIrection with respect to "maurauding
attackers", etc.
| > The reflex isn't "confused". It's just had an improb-
| > able stimulus imposed upon it. MDs do such in
| > order to "explore" nervous-system structural-integ-
| > rity, which discolses the fact of nervous-system
| > Integrity, which is =tightly= globally-integrated.
|
| improbabil and wrong
:-]
Not only Probable, but Verified as
being True.
You know -- it's called "Science".
| > It's =not= a "kludge". It's an Optimization with
| > respect to the fact that the Problems that
| > nervous systems routinely encounter are
| > routinely of infinitely-large scope.
|
| Nothing is infinite.
Take two 'points', as close as you like
as long as they're not the same 'point',
and there's Infinity between them.
| The kneejerk, charlie horse, sneeze-wince,
| sun-sneeze, nosehairpluck-tear, etc. are
| /not/ optimal routines; they are all weak-
| nesses out of cheap and blind growgrop-
| ing and quickbreeding. They are likely the
| traces of yet manier weaknesses that were
| killed off earlier; as soon as big, smart,
| noonstalking birds learn how to use pollen
| and well-steaded jabs against us, millions
| of the younger population will be dead.
Hmmmm... are you getting into 'science'-
fiction, here?
Evolutionary dynamics do ["of course"]
"evolve" over extended-terms, but it's
not as you assert with respect to "knee-
jerks", etc.
Consider an automobile. It'd be impractical
to use a "bolt" that're nore-costly to manu-
facture than the rest of the car.
In Life, the sort of same-trade-offs occur
routinely during the course of evolution-
ary dynamics, with WDB2T acting as the
"calibration"-mechanism, the result being
=overall= optimization with respect to org-
anisms' abilities to 'move' in 'the' anti-
WDB2T-Direction.
"Global-Integration."
| > Throw a "monkey wrench" into the 'works'
| > of =any= system, and the 'result' is a con-
| > sequence of the "monkey wrench" being
| > =in= the system.
|
| Except when the wrench doesn't fit.
Yeah, "except when the 'wrench' doesn't
fit :-]
Then the 'wrench' 'just' squashes the system,
like when one steps on an ant.
Ants 'move' in 'the' anti-WDB2T-Direc-
tion with respect to such by reproducing-
massively, living portions of their Lives
where 'wrenches' can't be 'thrown', etc.
Basicly, species literally grow-into anti-
WDB2T-Direction-"space" that's min-
imally-'occupied' by other species,
which includes, BTW, =all= behavior-
al dynamics.
| > "Faster" nerves would require greater
| > energy-consumption, which'd require
| > the host organism to spend more of
| > its energy just finding-energy, which'd
| > dumb-it-down, overall, and any organ-
| > ism not so-dumbed-down will out-com-
| > pete it with respect to Survival.
|
| So why is there a reflex rather than no
| reaction? Reflexes require
| greatter enerjy consumption.
Not having the 'reflex' would subject
a human to being not able to stand-up
as well as another human who had the
'reflex'. ["Standing-up is a Problem that's
infinitely-large in scope, BTW, be-cause
of the way that 'gravitational' force varies
with respect to 'movement' on various
terrain, which is compounded, also in-
finitely, by the ability to carry stuff that's
made-Possible by standing-up [on two
feet], and stuff like the fact that projectiles
and predatory attacks can come from
=any= Direction while one is standing-
up, 'moving' in the anti-WDB2T-Direc-
tion, etc.
The better-standing-up organism out-
Survives the less-able-to-stand-up
organism.
Hence the patellar reflex.
| > | It seems pretty likely
| > | that this was an accidental situation that was then
| > | firmed in by later evolutionary selection. In the slang
| > | of computing, a bug that was made a feature.
| > | A situation where signals going to the brain crossed
| > | over to nerves coming from the brain became an
| > | improvement, in some situations, over not having
| > | this cross connection.
| >
| > Nope. You are just unaware of what's
| > in nervous systems and their functioning.
| > [Forgive me, Please, but Computerists
| > [which is one of the 'hats I wear', BTW]
| > =need= to learn-from nervous systems
| > instead of trying to dictate what 'nervous
| > systems must be'.]
|
| You tort, not fiat.
No, I just 'move toward' Truth.
'move' in the anti-WDB2T-Direction because
understanding how and why nervous systems
process information enables one to do so
relatively-efficiently.
The understanding is available to all.
| > | This is how evolution proceeds. Something that works
| > | a bit better in the current context gets selected for.
| > | It does not matter if it's following some pattern or not.
| > | Often it is not. It does not have to be elegant, or match
| > | any particular means of categorizing behaviour or
| > | characteristics. It just has to work better right now.
| >
| > Truth is, nervous systems are Spectacularly-
| > Well-Optimized to perform as =Generalized=
| > processors.
| >
| > =Nothing= in-them is in-them without it's
| > globally-integrated Purpose.
| its
| There is no propos, only adhocopos.
| They don't foreknow anything.
Well, they =do=.
Nervous systems innately 'Know' the
difference between anti-WDB2T-Dir-
ections and WDB2T-Directions, just
like plants do.
Where things get 'Hard' derives in
the 'way' that folks generate virtual
'directednesses' 'within' their routine
interactive dynamics -- because nerv-
ous systems do innately 'Know' the
difference between anti-WDB2T-Dir-
ections and WDB2T-Directions, just
like plants do.
So folks instantiate =local= WDB2T
gradients via glitzy-'advertising, lies,
cheating, etc, in order to coerce the
'directions' in which other folks'll 'move'.
Overall, such doesn't work, however,
be-cause WDB2T happens, overall,
regardless of what folks 'contrive' to
do to 'seek profits' with respect to oth-
er folks' anti-WDB2T-Directednesses.
It's also innate 'within' nervous systems
to detect, and 'move away from' such
[AoK, Ap7.]
| > [There are, "of course", 'flaws' in individual
| > "genomes" that result from unfortunate
| > consequences involving toxic substances,
| > pre- and-postpartum Parental "stress"
| > and/or radiation, but such do not constitute
| > nervous system "kludges".]
|
| English-muttish Latin-slauhtering spelling-
| speakking is one whole big fat kludge.
|
| -Aut
Nope.
It's 'just' what I wrote in the last stuff I
wrote before the last stuff you wrote,
and, well, in the last stuff you wrote.
Peace.
k. p. collins
