Quoting Ham Priday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Ham,
> My question is: If things evolve to betterness as a principle of the > universe, how does our striving for beauty "move evolution forward"? In my mind beauty is associated with betterness, ugly with worseness. Plenty of exceptions, of course. > I > assume that "betterness" is the direction that evolution moves. Wouldn't > betterness be achieved just as fast and as certainly without us? Or, is the > phrase "moving forward" in this statement intended to refer only to human > progress? Yes, to human progress. Since humans are part of nature, I consider their works part of natural evolution. > Please understand, I commend the idea of striving for beauty and knowledge, > but only because they have value for mankind, not as a means of accelerating > evolution. What is of value to mankind I consider accelerating evolution. As far as I can tell, evolution has stopped at the biological and social levels. > You once expressed disappointment that I omitted "evolution" in my thesis. > This may be one of the reasons. Perhaps. I don't recall my disappointment about that. I do recall being unable to translate "negation" into anything meaningful. Best regards, Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
