"Phil Roberts, Jr." <philrob at ix.netcom.com>:
| How about LESS DETERMINED in the sense that we are a species which is beginning
| to show signs of having some SERIOUS RESERVATIONS about blindly and obediently
| caring out a number of nature's emotional mandates....
Indeterminacy exists at the lowest levels of the physis.
Even if it were not for QM, as Feynman showed, classical
mechanics also produces indeterminacy.
Probably, the organization of living beings is a way of
evolving larger determinable systems in spite of this
fundamental instability. The organization of animal
bodies, for example, is highly homeostatic. In the larger
animals, especially in primates, we begin to see the
evolution of societies which impose order and conformity
on their members. And in the case of human beings, a large
brain, originally evolved for some purpose like better
swinging from branches or rock-throwing, now fills with
rhetoric which commands obedience to simple principles and
fits the individual ever more snugly in with his social
context.
Finally, humans evolve the mass media and the Internet,
where they increasingly hear about and conform to a
rhetoric of non-conformity and submit to the dictates of
"freedom." The direction of evolution is clearly towards
obedience, not away from it.
Too bad.
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