[starlogo-users] philosophical inquiry

[Milos Blagojevic]

Hi,

Interesting phenomenon was always that of human evolving, just as it once 
came into being from animal regnum into the light of consciousness. This 
view suggested brings me to a next-step conclusion about evolution as a 
process of better (however arbitrary that would be) adaptability to 
environment consisting nowadays of many informational networks, primarily 
changing environment.  So I can't escape the feeling that  no evolutionary 
process can be expected spontaneously to occur but that be induced somehow. 
The fact that there is a "wish" for evolution precedes all thinking about 
progress. That I think would inevitably lead to some form of 
social-eugenics-models which are non-satisfactory. So by only viewing 
decentralization as a concept of evolution in somewhat materialistic way (as 
you put it "ants") can not fall far apart from old-fashioned centralized 
materialism. Of course I am not suggesting any spiritualistic or religious 
solutions but we must always be aware that live matter has something unique 
in all of the universe so it can evolve and change by itself. Consciousness, 
on the other hand brings us to story of social biology or something like 
that, but it can also be viewed from within chaos and self-organization 
theories which are, I think still in their infancy. That evolutionary 
novelty presents us with one more puzzle of complexity as interaction of 
constituents but as we travel (in modern molecular biology ) deeply into 
microscopic/physiological world we are more and more distant from its 
wholeness and ever much fallen in materialistic traps.

All I'm saying is that knowledge of complex phenomena might not entirely lie 
within grasp of modern rigorous evolutionary science, and that Starlogo and 
modeling within it can put us forward in directions of even a new paradigm 
based on decentralized mindset. Just stay away from materialism and thinking 
like an atomist Democritus or Lucretius...but be Heraclitus or Zenon in 
science...That's my message

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