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John Stewart and the evolutionary world view

Thing in itself

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Is There a Second Enlightenment Thinking?

First enlightenment thinking is only good at understanding parts of reality that are relatively mechanistic or can be reasonably approximated by mechanistic models. And complex phenomenon can't be, you know, you can't think through mechanistically complex phenomenon ecosystem, social system, political systems and so on. You need a higher level of cognition that's been very rare amongst human beings but needs to spread if we're to understand complex phenomenon. So this is the catch 22 that the evolutionary worldview is only understandable by a second enlightenment thinking because it deals fundamentally with complex phenomenon at all scales interacting together.

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