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Posted: 10 Mar 2021

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 Dinesh
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Philosopher Daniel Dennett once wrote on the theory of evolution: “If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I’d give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose and with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. But it is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea.
3 years ago.
 Dinesh
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The final test of Darwin’s stretch into the counter-intuitive comes in the last step in the Darwinian history of consciousness. Not only instinct but human consciousness itself grows from mindlessness. “If no organic being except man had possessed any mental power, or if his powers had been on the wholly different nature from those of the lower animals, then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed” We recognize here the synchronic strategy of other explanations -- that is, while it is impossible really to know the history, we have evidence from the nature of other living organisms that the faculty, here consciousness comes in many different grades, from simple instinct to complex instinct to habit to conscious choice. Darwin las shown that there are indeed many barely perceptible graduations of intelligence out there in the animal world. This is the groundwork for the demonstration that it all can happen without teleology, without a designer. ~ Page 160
2 years ago.
 Dinesh
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. . . The so called universal emotions(fear, anger, sadness, happiness, disgust, and surprise) are seen as meeting those criteria. Be that as it may these emotions are certainly produced across cultures and are easily recognized because one part of their action program -- their facial expressions -- is quite characteristic. Such emotions are present even in cultures that lack distinctive names for the emotions. We owe to Charles Darwin the early recognition of this universality, not only in humans but in animals. ~ Page 131 "Self Comes to Mind" ~ Antonio Damasio
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