Evolution
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I actually started to see some of this growing
evolution
and awareness myself cropping up all over China.
Now, that's all well done, so we got that from evolution, from maternal care, parental love, but we need to extend that.
Fortunately, there is the
evolution
of culture.
And if I didn't tell you what to look for, you'd still see the face, because we're programmed by
evolution
to see faces.
So I call this the P.H. model of evolution, and I don't want to get too technical here, but P.H. stands for Potato Head, and I use this name to emphasize that all these sensors that we know and love, like our eyes and our ears and our fingertips, these are merely peripheral plug-and-play devices: You stick them in, and you're good to go.
It's just what we have inherited from a complex road of
evolution.
It has helped to understand the past climate of Mars and its evolution, but also its habitability potential.
DNA, or any information carrier, is going to tell you about adaptation, about evolution, about survival, about planetary changes and about the transfer of information.
In our evolution, we have developed two different ways of vocalizing.
If we put out these brand new genes that we've created, that haven't been challenged by years of evolution, and they started mixing up with the rest of what's going on, couldn't that trigger some kind of cataclysm or problem, especially when you add in the commercial incentive that some companies have to put them out there?
This is a major mechanism of
evolution
right here.
So, people who think of
evolution
as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology.
Now I've argued, this is not genesis; this is building on three and a half billion years of
evolution.
Here's what the future may begin to look like with changing, now, the evolutionary tree, speeding up
evolution
with synthetic bacteria, Archaea and, eventually, eukaryotes.
So
evolution
has helped us out with this hormone called oxytocin.
Evolution
had given them a hack.
Fortunately, we don't have to wave our hands and guess;
evolution
is a mathematically precise theory.
We can use the equations of
evolution
to check this out.
Fitness is not the same thing as reality as it is, and it's fitness, and not reality as it is, that figures centrally in the equations of
evolution.
So the bottom line is,
evolution
does not favor veridical, or accurate perceptions.
What the equations of
evolution
are telling us is that all organisms, including us, are in the same boat as the jewel beetle.
So the idea is that
evolution
has given us an interface that hides reality and guides adaptive behavior.
Similarly,
evolution
has shaped us with perceptual symbols that are designed to keep us alive.
The theory of
evolution
is telling us that this is an incorrect interpretation of our perceptions.
The theory of
evolution
is telling us that once again, we're wrong.
By peering through the lens of a telescope we discovered that the Earth is not the unmoving center of reality, and by peering through the lens of the theory of
evolution
we discovered that spacetime and objects are not the nature of reality.
The theory of
evolution
presents us with the ultimate dare: Dare to recognize that perception is not about seeing truth, it's about having kids.
I mean, first of all, some people may just be profoundly depressed at the thought that, if
evolution
does not favor reality, I mean, doesn't that to some extent undermine all our endeavors here, all our ability to think that we can think the truth, possibly even including your own theory, if you go there?
So I think that we'll find that we have to look at each cognitive faculty one at a time and see what
evolution
does to it.
Here's why:
Evolution
always wins.
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