... suppose he's gone away again, but I'm interested in the metaphor of smelliness or stinkiness that he periodically brings up. Is the analogy meant to be
... I would not agree that that is how he arrived at it. It is to do with the observation that all change involves the suppression of possible alternatives.
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http://www.mith.demon.co.uk/darniet.htm ... Darwin himself insisted on the metaphorical status of his concept of the struggle for existence:- "Nothing is