Is evolution real?
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Replying to @memeristor
I'm inclined to believe so, not only across immense periods of time accounting for the emergence of diverse genotypes and phenotypes, but even at macrocosmic and microcosmic scales.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Is evolution limited to organics or does the process of adaptation through increasingly more complex forms also apply to nonorganic matter?
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Replying to @memeristor
My general impression is that variations on evolution apply across the board. It may not be evolution classically conceived, but some adaptation process unfolds regardless.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
I am not a scientist and so can only rely on statements made by those qualified to do so. With that out of the way it is thought that the first generation of stars were composed of hydrogen with traces of helium and that the heavier elements were created in the stars core.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
Hydrogen and helium through transmutation become the elements that we know. These elements enter into relationship and combine to create more compex forms and ultimately organic compounds, simple life and finally humanity.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
At each stage of this process we have unique forms or discrete individuality with characteristics that might be generally described as conforming to the axiom of form follows function.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
To my way of thinking a more honest theory of panpsychism has just been fleshed out. Humanities predisposition to describe the world around us as an extensions of our human perspective is pure hubris We cannot assert that human consciousness is a universally applicable phenomenon
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
We must look to the observed characteristics of matter its predisposition for individuality for relationship and its movements towards increasingly more complex forms. Does any of this seem reasonable?
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
This brings me to the question "Generally why does life exist and specifically why human life?"
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Big question! It's said, "Small doubt. Small awakening. Great doubt. Great awakening," and sometimes, "Great faith. Great doubt. Great awakening."
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Replying to @NoaidiX
If my line of reasoning is both reasonable from the perspective of our understanding of the evolution of the universe as well as from the subjective perspective of why life why humanity we have a relatively simple answer to the question asked above. Form follows function.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
This brings to the forefront the question of why did nature grant us capacities which so far exceed the requirements of mere survival? My dog can only be a dog it is as it is and cannot intend to be other. Its individuality is baked into its genetics. As a species we are unique.
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