[MD] Evolution

[Ian Glendinning]

Dave, Dan,

Absolutely Dave, natural selection occurs in all living levels of
nature - basic Darwinism.
In the socio-intellectual levels we have the added complication of
human intent and free-will based choices, but the natural selection
doesn't go away.

At that pre-intellectual cutting edge, life-changing events happen
without rational intent. The memes march on just as the genes do at
the biological level.

Ian

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Dan said:
>  Natural selection pertains to the biological level. There is no choice involved. The fittest survive to pass on those survival traits while the less fit hit an evolutionary dead end. At the biological level, the environment seems to determine the fittest.
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> dmb says:
> Well, there is that section in chapter 11 of Lila where Pirsig describes the role of "spur of the moment decisions" that direct the progress of evolution as "in fact, Dynamic Quality itself. DQ, the source of all things, the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality, always appears as 'spur of the moment.' Where else could it appear?" (142)
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> These decisions are not made deliberately in the human sense, of course, but are choices made within whatever range of possible action is available to the evolving species in question. I mean, a rat will get off the hot stove too. Hopefully.
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