Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,.... Romans 1:22
"ProSocial World: How the principles of evolution can create lasting global change (Binghamton University,
19 April 2023). BU is proud of its “distinguished professor” despite
his Darwine habit, and celebrates 20 years of Sloan Wilson’s Evolution
Studies (EvoS) program. Reporter Jennifer Micale begins,
Evolution goes beyond the genetic code and the transformation of physical form, from land-mammal to whale or dinosaur to bird.At the core of evolutionary science is a triad: variation, selection and replication, explains Binghamton University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences David Sloan Wilson, the founder of Binghamton’s Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) program. You can see this triad at work in culture as well, from economics and business, to engineering and the arts, and the functioning of society at all levels.Knowing how cultural evolution happens also means we can harness it for the larger good, creating a more just and sustainable world.
Q: Who is “we” in this Tontological sentence?
Q: If cultural evolution “happens” then “who” is there among the “we” of evolved products to harness it?
It seems that a rational, decision making, wise soul has snuck onstage
from the wings.
Micale introduces the keynote speaker:
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop right there! Wilson has just committed a logical foul. He has stolen a word from the Christian smorgasbord of values: “good” (to say nothing of other words like “sense” and “mind”).“We have to have the global good in mind and everything that we do in some sense has to be coordinated with the good of the whole,” Wilson said.
Q: What is good in Darwinian evolution?
---Evolution is as evolution does. It
kills and drives to extinction as easily as it pops eyes and wings into
existence by chance." CEH
