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Chapter 42
Does Natural Selection Select for Natural
Selection?
42.1 The Mystique of Choice
How do we live? In what closed or open spaces and levels of confinement? Who
makes these decisions and how do such choices—personally, culturally—impact
the world? Genes, memes, orientations, convictions, sociologies: The varied dimensions of our chosen and/or imposed confines—the many assumptions and premises
of science—are but one telling metric of the sum-total of behavior, our zoonarratological topology that, through so many descents with modification, lays
claim to who we are, our social norms and societal inflictions. Lays claim, but does
not necessarily persuade. We may assume that the temporal element of evolution
between the individual and species levels does not lend philosophical or physical
resolution to this self-referential mirror of natural selection, not in humans, at least
for the past several millennia. As early as 1962, in the first edition of Thomas
S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press) he
spoke of incommensurabilities undermining conventional proofs for or against
entirely new paradigms. Incommensurable paradigms whereby a premise does not
connect; causes and effects are strangers; relations are askew. Now, suddenly, the
nature of science is challenged by an altogether novel series of the commensurate,
namely, the emphatic nature of ecosystem vulnerabilities. Reality is posing the
greatest shifts to every discipline previously studied (Fig. 42.1).
Time has not solved any equations or taught us the underlying fallacy of a perpetual motion. We systematically break the bonds of time, within our lifespans,
presenting to the imagination every option and futility. This exponential test of natural selection, and the choices it propounds, is reduced to the instantaneous; to unrelenting idealism, the ground upon which all follies are executed, the aerodynamics
that tease us with Mars or Titan. Our unfettered imaginations have excelled at skyscrapers, clothing, unchecked serial-killer diets, and an average Western-style ecological household footprint of approximately 48 tons of CO 2 (equivalency)/yr
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. C. Tobias, J. G. Morrison, On the Nature of Ecological Paradox,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64526-7_42
Chapter 42
Does Natural Selection Select for Natural
Selection?
42.1 The Mystique of Choice
How do we live? In what closed or open spaces and levels of confinement? Who
makes these decisions and how do such choices—personally, culturally—impact
the world? Genes, memes, orientations, convictions, sociologies: The varied dimensions of our chosen and/or imposed confines—the many assumptions and premises
of science—are but one telling metric of the sum-total of behavior, our zoonarratological topology that, through so many descents with modification, lays
claim to who we are, our social norms and societal inflictions. Lays claim, but does
not necessarily persuade. We may assume that the temporal element of evolution
between the individual and species levels does not lend philosophical or physical
resolution to this self-referential mirror of natural selection, not in humans, at least
for the past several millennia. As early as 1962, in the first edition of Thomas
S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press) he
spoke of incommensurabilities undermining conventional proofs for or against
entirely new paradigms. Incommensurable paradigms whereby a premise does not
connect; causes and effects are strangers; relations are askew. Now, suddenly, the
nature of science is challenged by an altogether novel series of the commensurate,
namely, the emphatic nature of ecosystem vulnerabilities. Reality is posing the
greatest shifts to every discipline previously studied (Fig. 42.1).
Time has not solved any equations or taught us the underlying fallacy of a perpetual motion. We systematically break the bonds of time, within our lifespans,
presenting to the imagination every option and futility. This exponential test of natural selection, and the choices it propounds, is reduced to the instantaneous; to unrelenting idealism, the ground upon which all follies are executed, the aerodynamics
that tease us with Mars or Titan. Our unfettered imaginations have excelled at skyscrapers, clothing, unchecked serial-killer diets, and an average Western-style ecological household footprint of approximately 48 tons of CO 2 (equivalency)/yr