[MD] Social Imposition ?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> [Platt]
> In short, evolution occurs through a process of "Dynamic invention," 
> not some magical "emergence" from increasing collectivization.
> 
> [Case]
> As long people were confined to talking amongst themselves and repeating
> tales around the campfire culture remained in a relatively primitive state.
> Culture really only became a significant force with the advent of writing.

The "advent of writing" -- like magical emergence? Or a Dynamic invention by
a human individual, like Gutenberg Dynamically invented printing with movable
type.

> But more to the point "Dynamic invention"; "magical emergence"? You say
> potato I say potatoe. Evolution is about how systems maintain equilibrium in
> the face of change. The extension of individual human memory in the form of
> written language is a change that originated not in the environment but in
> within the species. It is an example of an intellectual pattern causing
> disequilibrium at the social level. As Prigione indicates when a system is
> pushed into a far from equilibrium state in can either reorganize into a
> higher state of energy or a lower one. In this instance it was a higher one
> and the results are... well History.

Your description of evolution and Pirsig's are at odds. I'll go with Pirsig's.



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