RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)
August 4, 2019 at 7:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2019 at 7:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It doesn’t matter why you’re proposing the thing you are, the proposal is not a part of evolutionary theory or any biological fact.
Determinism and fatalism are not interchangeable. As you refer to there being a “set of tracks” that would be fatalism, not determinism.
Determinism is more like a rock traveling through space getting pummeled by other rocks. The more strikes, the more difficult it becomes to know the end path with certainty. Additionally these sorts of events aren’t a closed system. New external cause routinely arise and disappear. Introductions of species and material, changing environments. Blind bad luck from catastrophic events (and the subsequent good luck for previously marginalized survivors).
With fatalism, the track metaphor...no matter how many times the rock is struck it will always be and always have been going where the tracks lead.
Determinism and fatalism are not interchangeable. As you refer to there being a “set of tracks” that would be fatalism, not determinism.
Determinism is more like a rock traveling through space getting pummeled by other rocks. The more strikes, the more difficult it becomes to know the end path with certainty. Additionally these sorts of events aren’t a closed system. New external cause routinely arise and disappear. Introductions of species and material, changing environments. Blind bad luck from catastrophic events (and the subsequent good luck for previously marginalized survivors).
With fatalism, the track metaphor...no matter how many times the rock is struck it will always be and always have been going where the tracks lead.
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