The Gnostic triumph of teleological cultural evolution over teleologically (Demiurgically) blind natural selection:
Cognitive evolution involves both biological and cultural components, superimposing non-random rational -creative decision-making on biological selection.
Is history to be understood in terms of the conflict of races – Nazism?
Nein!
Is history to be understood in terms of the conflict of classes – Communism?
Nein!
Culture, not race or class, is now the key to all history!
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And the future of human civilization will be determined by those who possess the kraft/power of technology to implement their *CULTURAL* ideas and values - their idea-logical Weltanschauung - and by such implementation, radically alter the face of human nature itself, possibly to the point of spawning an entirely new subspecies of humans in the process within the next 50 years.
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Johanna Seibt :“Our cognitive hardware (mechanisms and capacities) develops through Darwinian natural selection, but our cognitive software (the methods and procedures by which we transact our cognitive business) develops in a Teilhardian process of rationality-geared decision-making that involves purposeful intelligence-guided variation and selection.
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“In the eyes of present-day processists—at least those that no longer pursue speculative process thought—it is for scientific research to decide whether, and to what extent, the relationship between biological and cognitive evolution can be understood on the analogy that ‘biology produces the instrument and culture writes the music,’ with the instrument constraining the playable music, and not vice versa.” -Johanna Seibt, SEP
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Let’s face it: With every passing year some new technological advancement reminds us of the fact that human obsolescence is inevitable.
All hail the Pretty Gnostic Machine. All hail the coming uber integration of human and machine!
#gnosticism #demiurge #CulturalEvolution #teleology #JohannaSeibt #ProcessPhilosophy #Videodrome #PrettyGnosticMachine
Update: O, how could I forget #TeilhardDeChardin
His concept of #OmegaPoint partly inspired my Pretty Gnostic twist on #apocatastasis
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