In article <7nse4b$fq9$1 at panix2.panix.com>, gcf at panix.com (G*rd*n) wrote:
>"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.
This is not "instability". This is freedom.
Undescriptability, may be, but instability?
Well, the "instability" is a driving force.
This is where intelligence kicks in,
as it forever seeks to go out of the limits of known.
> 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.
It does not fit at all.
>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."
Freedom, by DEFINITION, is outside of ALL dictates.
Dictates are for the crowds to organize in groups
and follow the party line of fasion
to be ultimately exploited by the fat cat.
> The direction of evolution is clearly towards
>obedience, not away from it.
Huh?
You must be out of active neurons on line.
You will not survive beyond 1 generation with this
monkey logic of control, opression and domination
of one creed over all others.
>Too bad.
Yep.
