What we perceive is change (Heraclitus)
In order not to get lost let’s start (philosophically) from scratch. What
we perceive is change and no more. Everything else are explanations, models
or just so stories. Our only concern is how to survive in this
change. Fortunately we inherited faculties which keep us alive,
called here Wisdom of the Body
(WOB), which keeps also other living beings alive.
Somehow we humans inherited also the faculty of reasoning (consciousness),
and realized that change may cause suffering. From then
and onward we invested all our mental faculties to avoid suffering, e.g.,
religion, and science. We apply them to understand change. By understanding
I mean having a theory, belief or a story which will protect us from suffering.
So if Mr. Schwartz says "New
functions arise only by tinkering. . .” it is one explanation
of change to which I respond: Life (WOB) is creative! Think of
all these pessimists (Darwinists) who claim that life evolved through
adaptation to random changes. Randomness does not exist as such in nature.
It is a way to explain change. Take away randomness and their theory falls
apart. Life is creative.
v. Randomness
This change which threatens our existence does not provide clues how life
started, or how complexity evolved, and what is creativity. All these
so called beautiful and esthetic theories are only explanations. So why
do people cherish them? Because science or religion means power over
the other! (Michel Foucault)
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