> krauszeben@gmail.com wrote:

>> Without getting into all this blather abou how the brain works, i'm
>> just going to say i do not see how anyone could have a truly random
>> idea. Wether its an idea on the physical or theoretical plane the
>> idea coming from a human will always fill a physical or emotional
>> need. filling one of those to needs takes away the idea that an idea
>> could be random since the idea is in fact serving a purpose.

> The brain is an electro-chemical machine. Period. It obeys the laws of
> classical and quantum mechanics. Any "idea" is simple a state of the
> brain. Brain states are formed by a process of replication, selection and random variation of parent states, either
> genes (nature) or meme (nurture).

> Ideas do not have to fill any need.

> Evolution is completely purposeless. It is a Darwinian process that just happens.