Dave, Dan, Absolutely Dave, natural selection occurs in all living levels of nature - basic Darwinism. In the socio-intellectual levels we have the added complication of human intent and free-will based choices, but the natural selection doesn't go away.
At that pre-intellectual cutting edge, life-changing events happen without rational intent. The memes march on just as the genes do at the biological level. Ian On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
