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News Briefs 07-12-2007

By Gregon

Sometimes, your imagination just fails you.

Thanks Baldrick and Kat.

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Tinsel is really snakes’ mirrors.

Stephen Wright

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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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4 Comments

  1. Evolution, Devolution, Rate of Change and Domain
    Yes, in the mall you can see evidence for lack of evolutionary progress. Go to WalMart. You can see devolution in progress.

    The article on phys.org has been removed, for unstated reasons. However, I’ll assert that evolution in humans is going faster. We’ve gone from physical evolution to cognitive evolution, starting only a few dozen centuries ago. That’s not near long enough to see much physical evolution. However, as accomplished tool users, look at the result of tool use — a technologically based evolutionary niche (anthromophizing as is appropriate in this case, a “civilization”). That progress has been phenominal and is accelerating constantly. Don’t constrain evolution to such details as losing the brow ridge or walking upright (which we’re *still* not physically advanced enough to do without problems). Evolution is better described as fitting into a niche, and we not only do that, we alter the niche to suit us. THAT is a kind of evolution never before seen at such a scale.

    No, I am not the brain specialist…..
    YES. Yes I AM the brain specialist.

    1. I agree, but…
      As a famous argentinian cartoonist once stated, from the bow and arrows to radio-controlled missiles, it is incredible how much man has advanced in his techniques…

      And how little in his intentions 🙂

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

    2. Evolution vs progress
      From your comments and those of Red, I surmise that man has progressed materially and was taught to cope with his environment but that he did not evolve at all.

      Of course, one could argue by anthropomorphizing what evolution is, that the human experience is proof of evolution. That only holds water for those who believe to have climbed down some tree.

      For those who didn’t though, all there is is a mechanical complexification based on a function of categories, namely the intellect.

      It of course depends on how someone wishes to define what evolution is. But, anthropomorphizing evolution is bringing that concept to the inferior state and bypassing the intent.

      Of course, the intent cannot issue from the inferior state until that state carries the intent consciously.

      Here is one example:
      Science has made it law that the universe tends towards increased chaos. The so called law of entropy.

      Evolution on the other hand, far from creating disorder creates order.

      From that point, one could surmise that entropy is the polarization of universal energy. The use of energy to create order has entropy as a by-product. The universe is then separated between order and disorder by evolutionary forces.

      Of course, someone that would hold such view as evolution being a random process would not consider evolution as a process, since randomness cannot be a process.

      Humanity as we can see it today is polarized in our day and age between an intellect that has increased its analytic potential tremendously and had for side effect disorder on the planet.

      If and when humanity is evolved, such disorder cannot be a by product of human activity, for the simple reason that evolution creates order. So, this increase in disorder, that man likes to rationalize as being the mark of his possessing matter, is the staple mark of devolution.

      An evolved humanity, in other words a humanity that steps with both feet in evolution, will be brought to work with evolution as a leading principle and will put order back into the mess he created while unconscious.

      So, I guess that what I am saying, is that evolution is intelligence at work. Not there yet. What we have is mechanical principles at work because the machinery is not yet quite put together.

      You can’t appreciate a car while watching car parts on the assembly line as they are being put together. It will just look like a mess, unless you have at least seen a completed prototype in action.

      We are still on the production line but we would like to think of ourselves as whole.

      So, while the engine is dreaming of piloting the whole, he does not even know what the steering wheel looks like and is out of fuel.

      Any mechanical process should not be considered an evolutionary process but a function that may have been installed by an evolutionary process. At the end of such a process comes a mutation to allow previously impossible functions to be integrated into the system.

      Evolution should then rather be considered as the intelligent creation and organization of processes that allow moving beyond the original state from which evolution issued forth.

      So, we are evolved only at that time that we have the reins of our personal evolution in our own hands, until then we remain a progressive process on the assembly line.

      One could argue that you have to evolve to be evolved and to that I would say that this is anthropomorphizing evolution again.

      1. I never thought of that…
        Evolution in contrast with entropy. That’s a neat concept 🙂

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

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