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Evolutionary Systems - Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Evolutionary Systems - Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the
Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way
had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of humans in
nature. They opened up a richness of disillusion: earth acquired a
more modest place in the universe, the human body and mind became
products of a long material evolutionary history, and human reason,
instead of being the central, immaterial, locus of understanding,
was admitted into the theater of discourse only as a materialized
and frequently out-of-control actor. Is there something
objectionable to this picture? Formulated as such, probably not.
Why should we resist the idea that we are in certain ways, and to
some degree, physically, biologically or psychically determined?
Why refuse to acknowledge the fact that we are materially situated
in an ever evolving world? Why deny that the ways of inscription
(traces of past events and processes) are co-determinative of
further "evolutionary pathways"? Why minimize the idea that each
intervention, of each natural being, is temporally and materially
situated, and has, as such, the inevitable consequence of changing
the world? The point is, however, that there are many, more or less
radically different, ways to consider the "mechanization" of man
and nature. There are, in particular, many ways to get the message
of "material and evolutionary determination," as well as many
levels at which this determination can be thought of as relevant or
irrelevant.
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