love your musings.
I think part of the problem is
equating technology and human consciousness with biological processes, and
viewing all evolution as a process of "betterment". This highlights
for me another issue of poorly defined definitions! It's one of the same
problems that has gotten created in the school of Evolutionary Psychology that
tries to distill the complex processes of psychology down to the harder science
of biological processes. It causes smart, scientific people to make stupid,
unscientific extrapolations.
I do think it's true what Hawkins
points out about the inevitability of specialization as regards science and
technology and the glut of information. That's a sound argument. I just don't
like how we start muddling up all the ideas of evolution, as though it's a
process that ought to move towards an endpoint of perfection and enlightenment.
My experience of working towards a
goal of "enlightenment" is that we have to work against many of the
forces of nature, most certainly the nature of the human mind!!! That's where
many views of spiritual enlightenment fail, by not realizing how hard it is to
evolve oneself in this direction.
I am intrigued with your posting! Could you elaborate more? Perhaps give a concrete example? vw
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