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Do we have a purpose?

Submitted by Lauren on Mon, 02/26/2007 - 3:22pm.

Precisely, but then is there really a purpose for higher-level creatures at all? Or are they just the by-products of increased complexity (read: CA iterations) where failure to possess fatal "flaws" does not reduce organisms to their more simplistic forms? Perhaps the coexistence of different biological complexities in nature supports a natural weeding-out process (Darwin?); however from what I've read of Wolfram, he seems to not support the "survival of the fittest" idea. I'm confused.

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