tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post3541425699596165941..comments2024-03-04T15:09:00.479-08:00Comments on The Scientific Worldview: Critique of TSW Part 17a Univironmental AnalysisGlenn Borchardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-66836551206489639852014-08-06T13:26:45.727-07:002014-08-06T13:26:45.727-07:00Critique of TSW Part 17a Univironmental Analysis
B...Critique of TSW Part 17a Univironmental Analysis<br />Blog 20140806<br />Re: [GB……..The Selfish Gene…..] I don’t think I have even read that one, but it is clear from reading Dawkins “The Blind Watchmaker” that he was not confused by his own title, i.e. The Selfish Gene. What he meant was that it appeared that there was a survival/selfish aspect to the apparent outcome of what genes do. He knows full well that it is all causality and determination that leads to survival of the fittest. I will quote from the Back Fly of The Blind Watchmaker.<br />“Natural selection-the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non random process that Darwin discovered-has no purpose in mind.” <br />He has taken some poetic liberty with his language. That is how you sell a lot of books. <br />Re: BW….”If everything is connected nothing can move.” BW, Parmenides made that error. That’s excusable since it was 2500 years ago, but the deepest understanding of QP shows that all is due to oscillation between two states. It is motion that is matter, that makes up matter. Matter (as I define it, not GB) is a semi-stable arrangement of motion. Bosons etc. etc. The totality of this oscillation can be conceived of as a “Field.” The field can be thought of as being the potentiality of the relative motions of semi-stable forms of matter. Like quarks and EM photons etc. Sorry if that sounds strange. I am still working on the language to express this more fully. GB tends to stay away from QP. I think he is planning another book perhaps?<br />GeorgeBlighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10160829900151513063noreply@blogger.com