What is evolution:
Evolution is the process through which life overcomes constraint, and transcends these constraints in someway. This process can be broken into useful constituent parts, firstly somehow information is parsed, in natural selection, its genes which do the acting and playing, and jostling about in relation to the information reiceved through the mechanism of natural selection. Natural selection is the field of perception, and genes make up a basic kindof of consiousness (anything that grows in relation to information I would argue is consciouss).
We have a greater perceptual field than what natural selection offered genes, this is our own consciousness, which has allowed us to concieve of our causes and gain better access to this information to generate growth, which before would just act on our genes. So now information gets filtiered through a new organ called the self-aware brain, that is our beautiful advancement in relation to evolution, the system has entered a new realm, a higher realm of functioning;- consciousness (from genes to now) has become more discerning and greatly more aware (by inverting awareness, ie becoming self aware). We truely have the potencial to be free, because we are freedom incarnate. Freedom is the space we are given to create and invent, it comes moments after causes are understood, or internalised, so they can be transcended. Before this freedom was just seemingly random genetic viariation tested against external forces (natural selection), now freedom is more consciouss.
There is no way to determine exactly what form transcedence will manifest, and how viable it will be (although we must commit to taking efforts to consciously screen for viability (this is perhaps what generates our tendency to find rationality apealing), but we must make the form our transcendance takes, beautiful (we naturally do this already however). Beauty or the asthetic sensbility is in a way the only real internal constrant the system is subject to, it is the internal framework. Beauty is comprised of a bit of each of these elements: viability, anything that aids success;- this has included in the past: greater faculties with which to discern reality (ie. Each of the senses, and judging functions), consciousness comprises of what the Jungians have already delineated, Percieving and judging functions*, each introverted and extroverted; introverted intuition, extroverted intuition, Isensing, Esensing, Efeeling, Ifeeling, Ithinking, Ethinking. Each function has a shadow, everything has a shadow, except for freedom perhaps, because the shadow of freedom is that it can only negate itself, so we must be very consciouss that when we create we are truely in a free space. When we act in a space we have not assessed properly (which often happens when we act without being consciouss of the shadow function), we do not act freely, or create something truely beautful, unless the constraints are part of a structure that enables yet more beauty, or the ramifications are possible to live with, this is the organic concept of viability.
*As you can see the consciouss realm has inside of it 'everything'. We have internalised what is encompassed in the gene & natural selection set up;- genes judge, natural selection percieves, or perhaps its the otherway round, its hard to tell in such a rudementary consciouss set up. But this is the invention of conscioussness, to model out these truths internally, life is becoming more complex and sophisticated by internalising its metaphysical motive (which is a mixture of information that dances in the system, some beautifully complex dance) so it can still grow to a higher form of beauty. This can be substanciated because we 'feel' more free, or our motion is more beautiful, to us at least. The one thing I cannot account for, is this motive that we all have to transcend and as I put it become more free, to create and invent. Its really a marvelous thing, we are a microcosim of the system, we are made in the image of gaia, consciousness is the process of evolution itself, it is evolution in real time.
Evolution is the process through which life overcomes constraint, and transcends these constraints in someway. This process can be broken into useful constituent parts, firstly somehow information is parsed, in natural selection, its genes which do the acting and playing, and jostling about in relation to the information reiceved through the mechanism of natural selection. Natural selection is the field of perception, and genes make up a basic kindof of consiousness (anything that grows in relation to information I would argue is consciouss).
We have a greater perceptual field than what natural selection offered genes, this is our own consciousness, which has allowed us to concieve of our causes and gain better access to this information to generate growth, which before would just act on our genes. So now information gets filtiered through a new organ called the self-aware brain, that is our beautiful advancement in relation to evolution, the system has entered a new realm, a higher realm of functioning;- consciousness (from genes to now) has become more discerning and greatly more aware (by inverting awareness, ie becoming self aware). We truely have the potencial to be free, because we are freedom incarnate. Freedom is the space we are given to create and invent, it comes moments after causes are understood, or internalised, so they can be transcended. Before this freedom was just seemingly random genetic viariation tested against external forces (natural selection), now freedom is more consciouss.
There is no way to determine exactly what form transcedence will manifest, and how viable it will be (although we must commit to taking efforts to consciously screen for viability (this is perhaps what generates our tendency to find rationality apealing), but we must make the form our transcendance takes, beautiful (we naturally do this already however). Beauty or the asthetic sensbility is in a way the only real internal constrant the system is subject to, it is the internal framework. Beauty is comprised of a bit of each of these elements: viability, anything that aids success;- this has included in the past: greater faculties with which to discern reality (ie. Each of the senses, and judging functions), consciousness comprises of what the Jungians have already delineated, Percieving and judging functions*, each introverted and extroverted; introverted intuition, extroverted intuition, Isensing, Esensing, Efeeling, Ifeeling, Ithinking, Ethinking. Each function has a shadow, everything has a shadow, except for freedom perhaps, because the shadow of freedom is that it can only negate itself, so we must be very consciouss that when we create we are truely in a free space. When we act in a space we have not assessed properly (which often happens when we act without being consciouss of the shadow function), we do not act freely, or create something truely beautful, unless the constraints are part of a structure that enables yet more beauty, or the ramifications are possible to live with, this is the organic concept of viability.
*As you can see the consciouss realm has inside of it 'everything'. We have internalised what is encompassed in the gene & natural selection set up;- genes judge, natural selection percieves, or perhaps its the otherway round, its hard to tell in such a rudementary consciouss set up. But this is the invention of conscioussness, to model out these truths internally, life is becoming more complex and sophisticated by internalising its metaphysical motive (which is a mixture of information that dances in the system, some beautifully complex dance) so it can still grow to a higher form of beauty. This can be substanciated because we 'feel' more free, or our motion is more beautiful, to us at least. The one thing I cannot account for, is this motive that we all have to transcend and as I put it become more free, to create and invent. Its really a marvelous thing, we are a microcosim of the system, we are made in the image of gaia, consciousness is the process of evolution itself, it is evolution in real time.
I have posted the above post on another thread, I wrote an interesting response to a question, i just wanted to put it here because it completes my thinking a bit more on the topic:::
ReplyDeleteyes consciousness is awareness, but sometimes there are nebulous strains of the awareness, feeling has no rationality often, but its an older form of intelligence (intelligence is a rationale i believe), we are conscious of feeling, but we don't fully understand our feelings, this is not full awareness in a full sense of the word as I perceive its conceived, maybe im making a definitional flaw though..
I do not agree the will of evolution is cause and effect bound, thats the scientific perspective. Life overcomes constraint by becoming aware of it first, so it can create a greater discerning faculty that allows us to see a higher level of beauty. Our perception of beauty impels or generates the search and is also the method of the search for higher beauty. If perception grows it is reasonable to expect the structure of the truth to alter. That is how we have freedom, its not our decisions that are free, its the growth of our perception that is free; so as the boundaries of perception increase, so does our reality. Reality conforms to perception, this is what quantum physics tells us even. Perception is what is real, wow, i guess I totally refute materialism. Im defining the real rules that conscious realm plays by, these are the laws that govern perception itself ! wow thanks for your question, this has helped me refine my own thinking!
Genes perceive (mutate and grow and adapt), Natural Selection judges (decides on the best adaptive path).
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Do you believe that the rationality we now eskew will become ingrained into our psyche as we advance and could we see a higher level of instinct/feeling come into play that we do not yet comprehend?
yes, that is a very eloquent way of describing the process by which beauty becomes more beauty, which is a not a determinable process, its one that engages in real growth, because it involves real transcendence.
ReplyDeletebasically it involves more than cause and effect, there are no real causes, all that really exists is the perception whose shape is changing(its not really changing, it HAS to be more than just change- this is the confine of the scientific perspective we have to escape from) / growing / transcending.
ReplyDeleteI believe this transcendence is a function of the incomplete nature of the process that is imbued inside Nature.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the nature of freedom's shadow is ignorance of it's existence. Forcing oneself to believe in predetermination, detiny, fate and what have you. Which begs the question how can someone perceive that which up to now is unperceivable. What process or mechanism would be involved?
ReplyDeletethe process of aesthetics itself Spanky, its all your evolving strains and elements that inform your perception.
ReplyDeleteConcern::
ReplyDeletesounds like quite a bit of the good ol' "belive it because it makes you feel good" claim, and secondly its not really a theory.... just something you made up in your spare time. the entire thing reeks of a misunderstanding of science and a readily acceptence of faith.
i think that a strong case can be made that faith is one of the worlds greatest evils, comparable to the smallpox virus, yet harder to eradicate.
- Richard Dawkins
any and all comments that are taken as rude or impolite, it isint intended that way(sarcasam doesint count).
Response::
you identify it correctly as a theological perspective, but you haven't proved or shown, even with your logic, why its repugnant, just that its inconsistent the ethos of your lifeless tool- the scientific perspective; so your criticism i would argue is more of a confusion on your part. Its your lack of faith that makes less sense than my substantiated (although not completely compelling) belief (because in epistemological pluralism, there is no static truth, therefore there is no way to command belief, one can only find appeal in beliefs, I can say my system is true and real, because its appeal is real, you use it to make all your decisions, its at the core of the functioning of your soul).
It doesn't just feel good, all my faculties find it pleasing, it is consistent with all my thinking as well as all my feeling. Please show me exactly where its inconsistent, thats all logic can test for anyway, consistency, it cant appraise what im saying at all, because it has no way of making sense of what the good/truth would even look like, only aesthetic evaluation can do that.