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...And the manifestations of this neo-human-type evolution, manifestations could be dramatically counter-intuitive.
That's the interesting part. The old evolution is cold. It's sterile. It's efficient, okay?
And its manifestations are those social adaptations. You're talking about parasitism, dominance, morality, okay?
Uh, war, predation, these would be subject to de-emphasis. These would be subject to de-evolution. The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom.
These will be the manifestations of the new evolution. That is what we would hope to see from this. That would be nice.
That's the interesting part. The old evolution is cold. It's sterile. It's efficient, okay?
And its manifestations are those social adaptations. You're talking about parasitism, dominance, morality, okay?
Uh, war, predation, these would be subject to de-emphasis. These would be subject to de-evolution. The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom.
These will be the manifestations of the new evolution. That is what we would hope to see from this. That would be nice.
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Bethany
I agree with your conclusion that the new "manifestations" will be, largely, positive rather than negative.
Sticking with the framing dialectic of old vs new, negative vs positive, de-volution vs evolution, and so on [while recognizing that there are other framing perspectives, e.g. see Popper's Criticism of dialectic thinking that could create false dichotomies], I felt that there is a duality of both the collective soul [so to speak] and the individual that sometimes responds to the heart of darkness as well as the forces of light and all that is true and good. The relative strength of these elements appear to have a natural cycle and I feel that the "evolutionary cycle" [again, if we choose to think in these dualistic terms] in the web-era is, at long last, gaining a pendular momentum for the better. Let's hope it stays that way. That would, indeed, be nice.
I would look forward to examining with you and others how music plays into and shapes the foregoing forces at conflict. Good to meet you.