tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post6106288506683862239..comments2024-03-28T09:41:15.454-05:00Comments on Deric's MindBlog: From oral to moralDeric Bowndshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-31772852346454708872009-03-09T14:39:00.000-05:002009-03-09T14:39:00.000-05:00I think we have to push the ideas of evolution to ...I think we have to push the ideas of evolution to gain insight into the humanness of human being. I listened to a participant from this years T.E.D. gathering interviewed on NPR recently. He was all excited at the prospect that human being would soon be able to influence evolution by gene therapies etc. Yet, when I read studies such as this one above, I see exemplified, our abilities to create and connect from an expanded subjectivity; we adapt something known to communicate something transcending the known: the distaste born of neural reflex is made to communicate something born of something considered. Somehow, this TED participant seems blind to the evolution of which we are the authors.<BR/><BR/>Toward the development of another branch of evolution if you will, I would table Masilov's pyramid shaped, 'hierarchy of needs' for a simple ellipse: the shape derived by two poles; one pole denoting that of physical processes the second pole denoting processes that we call 'spiritual'. Take away either pole and human being disappears<BR/><BR/>I'm not using spiritual with any religious or theistic connotations here; I am using it to denote things like the aspects of love that transcend underlying physical processes and affect first hand, our vitality as living beings. <BR/><BR/>It seems to me that when I employ a biologically reflexive experience to communicate more fully and meaningfully, I am transcending reflex and am engaging creatively in a domain beyond utility. This other domain, the second pole of our polar unity seems to transcend utility and the schemes of evolution that embody utility.<BR/><BR/>By employing the concepts of ellipse, domain, creative and spiritual, I'm trying to communicate the actual 'solidness' of the intangible parts of ourselves, that are equally vital to us as the tangible. It is in this part of us that I'm here, calling spiritual, where we can- and need- to affect our other kind of evolution: because if we don't, life may have to resort to another species to evolve a human level of consciousness to take our place.<BR/><BR/>If we began considering evolution as consisting differently in two domains, the one being uniquely human and that we can affect, then what would our second theory consist of?<BR/><BR/>And so I don't sound totally off the subject, while I was writing this comment, I noticed my brow <BR/> shaping my eyes to the form used for peering into a darkened room.Mike Gottschalkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03570606130437615456noreply@blogger.com