From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 01 Nov 2002 - 21:09:43 GMT
> Joe,
> > Different people can indeed have similar thoughts, but this does not
> > mean that several similar actions taken by the same person do not
> > share a common mental basis. Individual neurons fire, or do not
> > fire, depending upon their input from other neuurons, and dynamic
> > gestalt- patterns are indeed formed, which refer to and represent
> > certain specific informational types and not others; some of these
> > information types may be accessed to guide specific action tokens.
> > Which patterns have been internalized depends upon an individual's
> > genetic predispositions, personal choices and environmental history.
>
> I don 't deny that either, but that ain 't the thing I was after ! I
> am fighting the assumption that the bias HAS to be a common one. IMO,
> maybe it is too hard to comprehend, what commonly is seen as
> collective is the way by which the evolution of a singularity went up.
> Everything in nature tends to be (the) getting better/ best. Our
> course to take this, that this is done along lines of consensus,
> deliberation and consultation for granted has led us away of what
> really matters in nature_ the singularity of whatever kind from
> whereout the evolution of the object/ subject can begin.
>
> The idea is to get from the Big bang as singularity to the Universe,
> from one cell to multiple celluar organisms, from one single idea to
> the complex state of a memeplex, from one seed of one tree to the
> whole of the forest which eventually will grow, from the one single
> hut to the houses in the town.... from singular to plural that is the
> way evolution follows.
>
No, evolution tends to favor progressively more complex and elaborated
systems, which permit a wider range of possible alternatives to the
organism, and thus increase the likelihood that it will survive to
reproduce. Not from singular to multiplicity, but from less complex to
more complex system.
>
> Kenneth
>
>
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