Look Who it Was Random video

Integrating the Reflections in a Hall of Mirrors

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Channel: Footnotes2Plato · 2008 · Science & Technology

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Darwin gave us a Newtonian answer to the phenomenon of life. He focused on individual bodies and the harsh physical realities they were forced to adapt to. A foreign and external Nature was their law giver and designer. Neo-Darwinism sees organisms as the victims of the slow mutation of nucleic acids, whose nearly static codes compute phenotypes which undergo differential survival in an ever-changing environment according to the whims of historical accident. But maybe evolution is not random. Maybe its complexities are governed by patterns we can understand. Time is not a homogeneous number line, and space not an empty vacuum. Each is alive with the possibility of creative emergence. Evolution is the playing out of highly organized systems, not in a deterministic way, but nonetheless in an understandable way, a way we can relate to.  


Frank Visser on Ken Wilber: http://coolmel.gaia.com/blog/2008/8/frank_visser_on_ken_wilber_a_video_interview

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