About this user
I've been working on a general theory of culture since 1996. I think knowledge is about to stretch our current awareness of the Universe from cosmos/nature to one of cosmos/nature/culture/mind.
Newton and Einstein worked on physical laws. Darwin and Wallace were both naturalists. There is nothing that underlines science more than the custodians of social and cultural phenomena (social science) generating the laws that underpin the social and cultural world.
The process is one of 'Newtonising culture: expression from evolution'. Culture is different from nature, but not detached. Your mind is different from culture, but not detached. Nature is different from the cosmos, but not detached. Cosmic inflation/expansion, natural evolution, cultural expression, it's exciting times.
I think we have to be wary of dogmatic attempts to explain phenomena from different fields, and in my awareness that is what is happening with some neo-Darwinian perspectives. The drive to explain all change through Universal Darwinism (UD) has parallels with the equally disagreeable intelligent design (ID).
In the short to medium term this stretches Darwin's theory too thin. It has weight in the organic setting of nature but breaks down in the realm of culture.
I am the latest in a long line of thinkers who have a science mind and yet believe in God. It's nothing anyone should get hung up on, certainly it's only a positive for me.
"Talking of 'Natural Selection', if I had to commence de novo, I would have used 'natural preservation'"
Letter 2931, Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 28 Sept 1860
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
Episode 11 - The Persistence of Memory
"...capable of working magic." Thanks Carl.
Hometown
Glasgow, Scotland
Country
United Kingdom
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