3.4 An Evolutionary Modernity
Last modified 07/04/2008
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Note that from seeing evolution in deep time, long long ago, we have reversed
our perception by finding it in recent time, in history itself, indeed, in terms
of the modern world itself, that we find ourselves in. This is subject to the
limitation of our two levels, that is, we cannot ascribe evolution to our direct
present, except as a generalized milieu. Our model handles all this for us, and
we should adjourn to its details. That is, if we pursue more closely
the eonic model, we find that the action of 'evolution in our sense' has
completed its short acting interval in our recent past, it will always be thus,
else we wouldn't observe it, and this is followed the
second level of evolution, the micro process, as this relates to our emerging
freedom, and realization of the macro. This requires more detailed study in the
other series provided here, but the point is that we have a way to bring
evolution into our near present, without this interfering with our actual
carrying out the process of history! The way the two interact can be seen in the
Axial period (thence, modernity) by seeing that the paradox is resolved not
deterministically but via the transformation of the consciousness of the free
agents who execute its action. An elegant resolution of the macro and micro
aspects.
We should note that in this case the micro factor is not natural selection but the degree of conscious freedom brought to the realization of the macro.
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