Arresting Evolution
“Scientific Modern man has become aware of his own evolution.” Julian Huxley.
After doing some research on this man, I quickly realized that it is possible to agree with a statement and not the philosophy of the person who was making it. Julian Huxley was an evolutionary biologist and also a eugenicist who was a large proponent of natural selection. He was unfortunately part of a contingent that believed in the controlling gene existence. While the question of naturalness is still very much up to debate, I know I do believe in the freedom of man and that belief is indubitably in conflict with any discussion of controlled gene pools. At first glance at this quote I thought it reflected the fact that we have developed a connection with our ancestors through anthropological and biological research. We have started to understand our history in terms of a science. We affored this because of the technology that we use. We are the only species in the world that can be defined by the technology that it creates without specialized biology. For the purpose of this argument I would like to describe man’s evolution in terms of the technology that is created. Of course this evolution does not appear to be as persistent -Meaning, if a person is born independent of culture, that person will not be able to use the knowledge of the ancestors past – but is more rapid. It was the evolution of a complex language center, and thumbs that are probably the most two significant evolutions to the human species. Since those evolutions, one would be hard pressed to pinpoint a biological evolutionary feature that would classify a human more evolutionary evolved than the man of that evolution. It would be much more productive for this argument to define our evolution as technological. The question then becomes, what happens after the singularity of mans evolution? There will be a moment when we can start to use our technology to better organize data about our relationship with our environment and the relationship our population. The technology we develop will become essential not to the luxury of our species but to the extended harmonic survival of our species with our environment. We start to see the idea of a dispersed nervous system in the emergence reading. How would we start to build a truly democratic system that would allow us to harmonize
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The images above visualize game of life algorithms which visualize organizations based on rules and starting parameters. After a few life cycles distinct organizations start to develop.