11.26.08
Paradigms and paradigms, self-organization and beyond
Will self-organization generate the next phase of evolutionary biology? (We even has Kauffman ‘reinventing the sacred’ around this as accompaniement.
Funny, we are back to the phrase that Hume uttered as he attempted to deal with the design argument.
In one way let’s hope so. It’s enought to dent Darwinism (witness the silence at Scienceboobs, sorry, Scienceblogs).
But in another, let’s not be fooled ever again by science propaganda. We need to get beyond the gaping mouth open why flatlanders in the science cult intone on reality with theories that might disguise propaganda.
Let’s learn to live without another orthodoxy, any settled ‘theory’ of evolution except for the empirical spectacle of evolution as emerging history.
In fact, it seems that, if the eonic effect is any indication, self-organization is just such a descriptive category, perhaps a theory of such descriptions, but not necessarily a theory of its dynamics.
It seems that a whole new conception of science must arrive before we can really come to a new understanding of evolution. For example: current science is stuck in an anti-teleological dialectic. But this seems to have served its historic purpose, while the way beyond it is not clear (although very clear in the directionality patterns of the eonic effect).
If you look at the eonic effect, self-organization works fine, but only as a generalized description. The amount of detail involved in this self-organizing is stupendous: it seems as if a design argument is needed, but that fails also.
The strategy of the eonic model is to construct an ‘evolutionary map’, and to describe it, and this, across the millennia of world history, keeps theories on the sidelines as we explore the immense complexity of real evolution in action.
The eonic effect, real evolution in action. Beyond science, beyond religion, the unfathomable wonder of processes operating over tens of millennia in perfect concert across a global sphere at the edges of space and time.