The Nature of Intelligence

I think it's clear now that we do use chance to develop the ways in which we develop. We clearly do use stochasticity. There are chance variations of our particles, our molecules and DNA sequences. But it can't be controlled in any way. Well we know from the immune system and from the other examples I've given like bacteria, hypermutating to avoid antibiotic problems. So in a sense, I am fundamentally saying it's the wrong way round to think that there's just chance at the bottom. Everything else is subject to natural selection leading to any form of development.

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