Thursday, February 27, 2020
More philosophy
Another smart bit of philosophy in today's news...
Rethinking plants vs humans.
The dances of plants with birds and plants with bees are well-known, but until now those relationships were assumed to be automatic and "evolved", which excluded humans because humans are assumed to have "free will".
A better overall view assumes EVERYONE is intelligent, and everyone is strategizing ways to accomplish their specific PURPOSES.
Plants made changes in their seeds after humans started to spread plants in our peculiar ways. The changes didn't make domestication easier, so they most likely weren't caused by our selective breeding.
Spengler suggests therefore that scholars studying plant domestication need to let go of preconceptions around human intentionality and agency to better understand plant evolution. “Domestication is not a great human innovation; it is an extension of a natural process. “By modelling domestication as an equivalent process to evolution in the wild and setting aside the idea of conscious human innovation, we can more effectively study the questions of why and how this process occurred.”An earlier philosopher with the same name had an equally broad natural view of human history, and made a pretty good prediction about the rising power of Deepstate. Unfortunately he took the wrong side, assuming that EU and Soros would produce a long period of harmonious "Caesarian socialism" starting in 2000. Shakespeare got it right. Deepstate is Brutus, not Caesar.
Labels: 2/3, Grand Blueprint, Smarty-plants
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