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Biology
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Jul 23, 2024
Public Health and Evolutionary Mismatch: The Tragedy of Unnecessary Suffering and Death
The current anti-vaccination movement is a result, in part, of the innate cognitive biases inherent in our nervous systems that evolved to deal with problems in a very different premodern world.
Feb 2, 2024
Functional Frivolity: The Evolution and Development of the Human Brain Through Play
Play is not frivolous but is an adaptation designed to guide proper cognitive development in human children.
Jan 18, 2024
Evolutionary Mismatch and What To Do About It
Mismatches are an inevitable consequence of evolution in changing environments, but some mismatches call for preventative measures to preserve what we value.
Jan 9, 2024
Towards a New Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans and Nature
It is a sad reality that recognition for many scientists depends on their nationality and how much exposure they have obtained from the Global North rather than the intrinsic quality of their scientific research.
Oct 3, 2023
Why Teleology is the Elephant in Evolutionary Theory’s Room
The common denominator here is not consciousness, but the spontaneous emergence of systems that are agents, systems with teleological properties: the “end-directed” properties that unequivocally characterize life.
Sep 28, 2023
Can Evolution be Understood as a Conscious Process?
My approach is explored by considering Aristotelian Causal Categories, focusing on Final Cause. I then consider the possibility of understanding this question from an ‘internalist’ perspective.
Sep 21, 2023
One Culture, Two Cultures? How Many Cultures, How Long?
When asked “Can Evolution be Conscious?” reactions can occur aptly reflecting the “informal definition” (as stated in most dictionaries) of schizoid, that is, “having inconsistent or seemingly contradictory elements.”
Sep 12, 2023
Can Evolution Be Conscious of Itself? Yes, It Can!
Human beings are subject to the workings of evolution and are also aware of their role as shapers of the environment so as to consciously direct evolutionary change.
Sep 5, 2023
The Consciousness of Detachment and the Detachment of Consciousness
To speak of an evolution of consciousness as a natural event is to be committed to the idea that consciousness can be a further expression of something which is not yet consciousness but is a prerequisite for the possibility of consciousness.
Aug 16, 2023
The Evolution of Consciousness Enables Conscious Evolution
Understanding the evolution of consciousness provides the scaffolding for evolutionary science itself to consciously evolve, and to help human individuals and groups do so as well.
Aug 10, 2023
The Origins and Evolutionary Effects of Consciousness
How consciousness evolved and how consciousness has come to affect evolutionary processes are related issues.
Aug 8, 2023
Conscious Evolution is a Category Mistake
No, evolution is not a conscious process, and to think so is an example of what philosophers call a category mistake, predicated on a fallacy of equivocation.
Jul 23, 2023
Evaluating Narratives of Conscious Evolution
Every person is in a position to start consciously evolving their meaning systems for the groups in their own lives.
