RE: Physical idealism
May 15, 2016 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 9:17 pm by bennyboy.)
Right, when I talk about "physical idealism," I'm not giving an alternate explanation to either idealism OR materialism. This is not a cosmogonic theory, but a description of the relationship between chaotic systems, time, and persistence in a material universe (although it would be the same in an idealistic universe given chaos, interactions, and time).
I think the problem is that the OP isn't as deep as some people are making it. I was only saying that the DNA consists not of a complete map of the human body, but rather a collection of ideas about how a body is made: what a limb is, for example, with layers of modification on top of that. Just to say "Oh, well, the DNA has adapted through time, and in an individual, the DNA determines what and how proteins arrange themselves" etc. is to miss the point: that statistical moments in our evolutionary history have led to genetic ideas which are foundational-- and that a human being is not so much an expression of his DNA but of all those many ideas, with the DNA being the medium of persistence of those ideas through time.
In essence, I'm saying the egg comes before the chicken.
I think the problem is that the OP isn't as deep as some people are making it. I was only saying that the DNA consists not of a complete map of the human body, but rather a collection of ideas about how a body is made: what a limb is, for example, with layers of modification on top of that. Just to say "Oh, well, the DNA has adapted through time, and in an individual, the DNA determines what and how proteins arrange themselves" etc. is to miss the point: that statistical moments in our evolutionary history have led to genetic ideas which are foundational-- and that a human being is not so much an expression of his DNA but of all those many ideas, with the DNA being the medium of persistence of those ideas through time.
In essence, I'm saying the egg comes before the chicken.
