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Ep. 30 - Relevance Realization Meets Dynamical Systems Theory

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Darwin's Theology of Fittedness

Darwin was thinking about going into a clergy and that's because he thought if they studied the natural world, they could understand how things were designed. But i think one of the insights, and it's not given enough attention in the analysis of the brilliance of darwin's theory, is to realize that things don't have an essential design. There is no essential design on fittedness. Some are fast, some are slow, some are singular, cellular, some are multi like nothing, nothing. And what i mean by fittedness is, what is it about the organism that makes it fit? What is itabout the organism that allows it to survive long enough to reproduce?

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