Future Darwinism- Selecting Life for the Universe

Future Darwinism- Selecting Life for the Universe: "David Tow
Future Darwinism- Selecting Life for the Universe
Written by David Tow
David TowDavid Tow- Information scientist and Director of The Future of Life Research Centre in Sydney NSW, predicts life will prove to be ubiquitous within the universe. By combining physicist Lee Smolin’s evolutionary theory of the emergence of a life in the cosmos with the Centre’s Decision-Network Evolutionary Theory- D-Net, David Tow suggests it is likely that the universe, as the ultimate environment, selects life because it is the most efficient form of information processor.

The revolutionary idea that Smolin introduced over a decade ago is that each generational child universe is a mutated form of its parent, with slightly altered physical parameters. If these changes allow for small increases in inflation, this may kick-start larger universes that do not collapse as quickly and which will eventually have the capacity and longevity to create stars, planets, carbon, complex molecules and eventually life.

In other words, universes capable of generating life will be selected in the biological Darwinian sense, according to the rules of mutation, selection and replication."