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- Title: Life's Hidden Resources for Learning: Conversations with a Radical Idea (Essay)
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 229 KB
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INTRODUCTION The main thing wrong with how people see Darwin's theory of evolution as a competition for survival is that the organisms and communities we actually see in nature don't behave that way. They're not mostly engaged in competition at all. The organisms that survive as the fittest in life, and that we directly see populating the earth, are mostly engaged in resourceful exploration when we see them. They prosper and survive by resourcefully using what they find free and uncontested in their local environments while successfully avoiding conflict. I'm not suggesting that in not being combative that organisms are 'unassertive' at all, but just 'smart' in doing it. What you seem to see in ecologies is each individual following their own path of exploratory learning. What the modern theory of evolution does is replace the behavior of the individuals with fixed definitions of statistical tendencies. The theory can't represent things on an individual level, and portrays the individual organisms as if they were following the theory rather than their own interactions. The question then would be how to develop an advanced model of how individuals behave as individuals, to better explain what we directly observe.
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