I've been contemplating evolution a lot lately. Darwin did a great job
of categorizing the effect, but his theory did not prove cause. Not
only is that part of the controversy between his evolutionists and
creationists, there are also some fairly recent developments in
biology that seem to disprove his theory. Darwin's contention is that
random mutations cause evolutionary changes, but I think he even kind
of waffled on that one, and now it seems that chaos theory and fractal
geometry, which can appear random but definitely are not, are part of
the equation. So random physical mutation does not cause evolution.
What appears to be a mutation might be the effect of some other cause.
Yesterday in my state of super-connectivity I had this thought. Say I
am a bird with relatively limited intelligence and perhaps no
self-consciousness. My thoughts might be limited to bird thoughts
something like: bird hungry, bird food, bird song, other bird song,
etc. The bird thinks about birds, and when the 100th bird (ala 100th
monkey) thought diverges from the typical physical state of birdiness,
the thought has enough energy to cause evolutionary change. In other
words, if enough birds have the same thought, that thought reaches a
critical mass and, wala, species mutation manifests that thought.
This can go back to the most basic thought forms of life. As they
coalesce, like atoms into molecules, they achieve manifestation.
Molecules behave a specific way, and in that sense could be seen as
having passive intelligence. A thought wave (from non-physical) hits
enough of the same physically manifested molecules and the critical
mass builds, and eventually you get DNA, and bacteria, and birds, and
mammals. You get apes with complex brains that are required to sustain
the thought of apeness. The complex brain/body of higher animals is
able to receive even more complex thought, and eventually
self-consciousness is achieved. A logical outcome is that eventually,
total consciousness is approached by our leading edge thought.
Keith
