Reason, Logos, Evolution (response to professoranton)

response to professoranton

with special guest star Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:

Education

Tags:

• teilhard
• de
• chardin
• evolution
• consciousness
• reason
• logos
• darwin
• science
• religion
• myth

[lookatmepleasesir]

@TheRevNation thats a really good point...but we may as well try to understand ourselves and our environnment while we're here

[CammieSpectrum]

How do you connect 'This Directionality' towards greater Awareness with the Panentheistic view you have. Do you think that 'what' is directing' is hidden 'in' nature or is it a different type from what emerges & Exists????

[kakosuranosx]

@almafarag That's easy. Because en arki en logos kai o logos en to kosmos en. =)

[kakosuranosx]

See? I love the way he talks about the arki, the logos, and the physis. He really has a special way of expressing the real and the logical side of the notion of principle that we created thousand of centuries ago. I swear to Zeus that I can feel a Greek inside of him. =)

[studentoflife01]

Hey 0Thouartthat0 < ========= Did you get my comment?

[Israe5l]

There is two reasons. One, the natural reason is mathematical. From data it calculates the future out come. Two, the metaphysical Reason is arguements. Here the presupposition is not air-tight. But we have this assumption that the world is reasonable. Logos.

Is the world Reasonable?

[TheRevNation]

Ok .. here's the future we're moving towards ... one day the sun will super nova and all this garble we consider intelluctual thought will be evaporated into nothingness ... its time we get over ourselves.

[pknvdw]

"Might not natural selection reduce complexity in circumstances where complexity becomes prohibitive?"

Yes, quite likely. Evolution isn't operating to increase complexity, it just makes organisms that reproduce effectively. Sometime that can be achieved by greater complexity, sometime by greater simplicity.

Obviously, if 'complexity becomes *prohibitive*' that genotype will not propagate.

[rayyf69]

Might not natural selection reduce complexity in circumstances where complexity becomes prohibitive? An example of this would be the digestive system of parasites. As they gain selective advantage from living parasitically they were able to take advantage of their hosts digestive enzymes or mechanical action to perform catalysis on their food for them.

[TodaysThought]

So is the soul a part of consciousness or is consciousness a part of the soul? Or are parts an illusion to the whole and consciousness if the ground of existence?