10.13.08
Human evolution wasn’t gradual either
Telic Thoughts picks up Mazur’s article The Origin of Form Was Abrupt Not Gradual
The signs of abstract form generation are, remarkably, starting to appear in mainstream biology.
From there we can proceed to look at the eonic effect: an abstract system generation able to remorph whole civilizations in an evolutionary instant, via differential time-slices, several centuries. What’s more we have the evidence at close range in historical time, witness the complex evidence of the Axial interval, taking, for example, the sequence beginning with Archaic Greece and looking at this against the backdrop of a long timeline of world history. The inexplicable suddenness of the phenomenon shows us that our views of evolution are too flatfooted, and conservative (as they should be until we have the proper evidence). The eonic effect shows us that our Darwinian perceptions are completely off the mark, indeed, that evolution may not be easily understood in its staggering scale and complexity at the present level of human intelligence.