[Ian]
Can't pretend to understand what you meant by "reconciling Ooops with
an Omega point" either, but no matter ... ;-)
{Krimel}
Oops is how Wilber describe the idea that we got here through a series of
random processes. The Omega Point (which Wilber also abuses as a concept)
comes from Teilhard De Chardin which is roughly that since things to be
evolving in the direction of increased complexity an Omega point would be
the point of ultimate complexity or God so that this future perfect state is
actually directing evens in the present.
[Ian]
Happenings can "occur" randomly, but "what" happens is neither
entirely random nor pre-determined. What happens (in the long run,
over populations, over multiple cycles, over multiple levels) tends
towards better fit.
[Krimel]
Right determinism no longer implies predictability. We can not assert what
will be, only a set of probable outcomes.
[Ian]
Apart from defining what "better" and "fit" mean - which is where we came
in, -
And Apart from the "why" question in that tendency - does what I'm
asserting there make sense ?
(I intorduced ratchets - aka static latches - as part of my why
explanation, but let's be sure we understand the assertion first.)
[Krimel]
"Better" just makes my shorts creep up my butt. Let's stick to biology for a
second here. A species is essentially a set of probability distributions for
the traits of members of the species. So probably swans are white and have
wings and feathers and they float. The only thing that can really change the
distribution of traits is change in the environment or some adaptation in
the birds. If something like this happens there will be a new distribution
of traits in future populations. But the only real "ratchet" is stability or
disruption in the environment or the population.
Prigogine shows how the same sort of thing happens in dissipative systems
when there is a change in energy flow. The system reaches a bifurcation
point and can either move to a higher or low state of stability.
But in evolution the ratcheting is just a new state of equilibrium.
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