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.
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)
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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