[MD] Social Imposition ?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:


> Do you think the cells "planned" to make animals?
> Did the cells have any idea that they were making an animal?
> Do you think DQ is sentient and had a schematic already worked out?
> 
> It is clear than the "animal" results from the collective activity of the cells.
> If Pirsig calls this "Dynamic invention", it is simply a difference in
> terminology, not in process.

That's not what I got out Pirsig's explanation of evolution. Behind it all
is the "thrust" if you will towards betterness that "emergence" does not convey. 


 


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