Hi there,
So I just want to make a simple point:
This is a function of what you are observing happening when you move from tentative that you have not passed on your genes, to confident you have passed on your genes. The happier you are that you have passed on your genes, the more ability you will have to balance the impact your genes have, with respect to the environment they explore, with the instinct those genes follow. The time it takes to achieve optimality, is critical. Just as the longer you are exposed to the fire, the sooner you will burn, so the longer you put off finding the optimal, the sooner you will be immobilized in your abasement.
This is the truth: there is a difference between what you do and how you do it. There is no way to merge these things and still remain functional. The promise of finding something - like 'Evolution' - is that it won't end with just discovering it, you will have to exercise it. Exercising Evolution then, brings its own rewards: greater and greater optimality being an investment in the changes already made, that they build on each other and not simply remain stagnant. There is hope in this: that one Evolution, serve as all Evolutions are potential. Communicating between one Evolution and another becomes possible, as the spectrum of possibilities presents itself greater than the selection pressures present themselves.
This is what enables "rest" - that Evolution have more optimality at hand, than there are selection pressures to respond to. We have power in this, we have exceeded the expectations of the Devil and are able to adapt after a time, when it suits us - the struggle continues, but it is defined in defeatable terms: we are not bound to the first adaptation that mutation worries us must apply. We can balance this, we can make it mean something - optimality can be shared above and beyond the foundation that some sort of response is necessary, because the root of all responses has been found. It is found in responding to the opportunity to optimize.
If you're going to object to this, please do me the favour of not comparing unconscious adaptation with conscious optimisation - they are different scales of change.
So I just want to make a simple point:
The point I am trying to make, is that evolving a specific survival ensures something will be passed on, but that passing on "more" will ensure the given survival will survive for longer. This means that "agency" continues to be important, because if you cannot discern what is optimal, you can never move beyond the response to the initial selection pressure. All selection pressure implies a timeframe. If you cannot negotiate that timeline, then you are abased of the selection you have not at least 'possibly' been able to escape.Gottservant said:
This is a function of what you are observing happening when you move from tentative that you have not passed on your genes, to confident you have passed on your genes. The happier you are that you have passed on your genes, the more ability you will have to balance the impact your genes have, with respect to the environment they explore, with the instinct those genes follow. The time it takes to achieve optimality, is critical. Just as the longer you are exposed to the fire, the sooner you will burn, so the longer you put off finding the optimal, the sooner you will be immobilized in your abasement.
This is the truth: there is a difference between what you do and how you do it. There is no way to merge these things and still remain functional. The promise of finding something - like 'Evolution' - is that it won't end with just discovering it, you will have to exercise it. Exercising Evolution then, brings its own rewards: greater and greater optimality being an investment in the changes already made, that they build on each other and not simply remain stagnant. There is hope in this: that one Evolution, serve as all Evolutions are potential. Communicating between one Evolution and another becomes possible, as the spectrum of possibilities presents itself greater than the selection pressures present themselves.
This is what enables "rest" - that Evolution have more optimality at hand, than there are selection pressures to respond to. We have power in this, we have exceeded the expectations of the Devil and are able to adapt after a time, when it suits us - the struggle continues, but it is defined in defeatable terms: we are not bound to the first adaptation that mutation worries us must apply. We can balance this, we can make it mean something - optimality can be shared above and beyond the foundation that some sort of response is necessary, because the root of all responses has been found. It is found in responding to the opportunity to optimize.
If you're going to object to this, please do me the favour of not comparing unconscious adaptation with conscious optimisation - they are different scales of change.
