RE: Perspectives on Evolution
September 29, 2017 at 2:21 am
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2017 at 2:31 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
You're all trying to lift Bennyboy out of the rabbit hole he's fallen into and that's all very admirable and whatever. I on the other hand am going to kick him further down it because I feel like it. 
There is a school of thought (autopoeisis) when reasoning about agents that the distinction between where the agent begins and end and its environment is actually quite arbitrary. You can't exist without being in an environment. You sense your environment, you process information and act within an environment, which further changes what you sense. You are part of the environment, along with everyone else who makes up part of your environment. You can't live without your gut bacteria for example and this population inside of you changes over time based on what you eat from your environment.
From the perspective of self organising systems, each system is one of many all of which are part of a larger self organising system. Whether its neurons in your brain, fellow members of your own species, part of an ecosystem or economic system, one planet in a solar system, galaxy, super-cluster etc.
The point I am making is that the labels are more useful than anything else. We can just as much refer to a gene pool as we can what is or isn't part of human.
There is a school of thought (autopoeisis) when reasoning about agents that the distinction between where the agent begins and end and its environment is actually quite arbitrary. You can't exist without being in an environment. You sense your environment, you process information and act within an environment, which further changes what you sense. You are part of the environment, along with everyone else who makes up part of your environment. You can't live without your gut bacteria for example and this population inside of you changes over time based on what you eat from your environment.
From the perspective of self organising systems, each system is one of many all of which are part of a larger self organising system. Whether its neurons in your brain, fellow members of your own species, part of an ecosystem or economic system, one planet in a solar system, galaxy, super-cluster etc.
The point I am making is that the labels are more useful than anything else. We can just as much refer to a gene pool as we can what is or isn't part of human.
