Well, okay that about covers it.
And to me its ancient history, and since my measure of its success is reflected in the society this line of reason resulted in. That gets a resoundingly failing grade.
(if I were in a group I would immediate get pounded with examples of all the fantastic technological wonders of our age. I don’t discount anyone that - but our inability to face and reconcile the other side of the coin. All those wonders come at a cost - why must ignoring that cost as much as possible accepted by philosophers.
Why do the leaders and masses normalize Lies and dishonesty and ruthlessness as standard operating procedure. Why do we so easily put aside unassailable physics and consequences.
Those are the hard problems.
But it’s tough getting funding if one wants to be so “negative.”
I don’t know if I’ll ever completely get your theme. I can’t imagine something more acknowledging of our biological roots.
Maybe we disagree on the idea that we inherent biology that the environment produced but as the environment changes we apply those attributes to the new reality, not necessarily in the same way or same reasons they evovled in the first place.
As a set of rules or guidelines, it’s fine.
As something that helps us grasp our evolutionary biological origin, it’s empty, no soul, it’s just a plan to succeed on the back of post card.
Hmmm, my theme, well what’s driven me all these decades? I think it’s the godawful arrogance we humans possess without ever recognizing it. I get smacked by it in talks right and left. Philosophers seem to speak the language of self interest more than anything else.
I’m tree hugger I see a whole world of life that most other write off and couldn’t careless about.
Unless your philosophy is that we should end the human race, I don’t know how to avoid that. It’s the survival instinct, which evovled, and depends on everything else. There, I recognized the pageant of 4 billion years.
To be really clear here::
I think you have something to say, i just don’t like how you are saying it
True, but time always wins, even as the probability is low. We only need to look around to see the incredible near-infinite variety that time and a dynamic environment can create.
OTOH , from the fossil record it appears that some 95% of all life on earth has become extinct and disappeared. Natural selection is not a kind judge of what species become most adapted to the environment.
As Hellstrom said “Life must take Life in the interest of Life itself”
I’m thinking of the sea turtle that swims some inordinate distance to lay it’s eggs. It’s because the tectonic activity has moved an island way off shore. The turtle has no evolved skill to be smarter about that.
But it has acquired the ability to swim long distances in relative safety, being protected by heavy armor and having plenty of time, Turtles have enormous life spans.
Now, see I don’t really see that figure as a wow moment. After all it could just as well be an indication of the profound depth of time this pageant unfolded in, and our limited perspective.
Earth’s complete evolutionary pageant played out in 24 hours would have early human ancestors walking the planet at 23:58, 2 minutes to now.
On that timescale Kenya gained Independence a millisecond ago (1963)
Also the more current figure seems to 99.9%. Yes, pretty wild and amazing at first glance, but a deeper understanding of the evolution from a generation by generation perspective, reduces the wow factor, since further knowledge puts that figure into better context.
True dat!
Also nature doesn’t give second changes.
What a shame all the kings horses and all the kings men never could wrap their collective heads around that.
What I see is that biochemistry made up of identical particles, when organized in patterns, ever-evolving into more complex patterns and honed by natural selection express an exponentially expanding variety and functionality of survival skills, is truly awe-inspiring
Precisely, they have microtubule-based navigational senses!