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So what exactly are you describing then as '... an ability for an organism to react to pressures' ??, bc as i understand it and in the context of this conversation, we're talking about 'evolutionary development' , ie dna 'mutation or change' , are you now only actually meaning 'adaptation' (which is already hard-coded at the cellular level) , which isn't a dna mutation ?? ....
Mutation is not due to evolution or adaptation. It's due to random copy errors. And adaptation is not hard-coded in any sense. Those two things are exact opposites.
I agree that mutation is not evolution or adaption but 'corruption' of existing information.
Adaption is already 'coded' into the genome and only becomes prevalent due to your 'pressures', otherwise how can dna 'adapt' without a sequence to express that 'adaption'. So run it by me again, in the context of this topic, what is the process that alters or adapts an existing dna sequence by adding extra information ??...
A computer has the potential to be programmed any number of ways using only 1s and 0s but we don't say that any programmed behavior is "hard coded" into the computer simply because the computer currently contains 0s and 1s.
A very hot area of computing for the past 2 decades or so is programming compute systems with feedback loops so as to be self-tunring/optimizing. This is, high-level, what is meant by "machine learning" and what the marketers now refer to as "AI".
Re this context, frankly, I have no idea what the context is anymore because the line of questioning seems a bit obtuse. I'm sort of done with the thread as it doesn't appear to be heading anywhere productive or possibly even well-intentioned.
Have a good new year.
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