257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos
The Michael Shermer Show
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i think there's a sort of adimicum for any terrestrial like planet. The total number of theoretical combinations is so stupidly large that the likelihood of ending up in anything like a terrestrial biosphere on the earth is vanishingly small. But, as you say, i mean, oif youre oin to go round stabbing things, why not have a sabre? It's a very good idea. And because those things are so recurrent, my sense is that they provide a sort of, so to speak, of adimaclity and design from the top down.
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