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29Bob Malcolm The nature of evolution is such that the resources we might use to effect (not affect!) desirable change must co-evolve with our socio-technical systems

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74Pete BarnsleyBob, are you saying that evolution is actually co-evolution always -the separation of cause and effect is impossible?
116Roger HarndenIndeed, but in a way doesn't this in any case happen, whether consciously or not. And, history (and biological evolution) is littered with good ideas/inventions/biological phenomena, that for a variety of reasons don't survive or evolve per se. But many may have (or not have) an impact on some quite unrelated phenomenon (that itself may or may not evolve).