Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Blinded by Science - The Nature of Technology
In my earlier post - Decision Time, we began using the fictitious plant Terranus as our guinea pig for discussing social conditions for the conscience aspects of mechanical evolution. Here is the summary:
Terranus begins to realize the benefits of global unity, better schools, increased productivity, and more technological advancements in shorter periods of time. This is a segment of mental evolution. Mental evolution is in close relationship with Theistic evolution, in that both exist outside the physical world, but nevertheless affect it. Whether you believe in The Creator, it took something with order to take chaos and give it structure. Based upon that same principle, man has structured the world to suit his thoughts. Taking nature, with its minerals and creatures, man has given it a structure of machines with moving parts controlled through circuitry. Technology, as define in the 2002 World Book published by World Book Inc., refers to the inventions - including tools, techniques, and processes - that design to make it easier for people to satisfy their needs and desires. To get to a level of technological aptitude for biomechanical evolution to be possible, this step in technology is necessary for a civilization to accomplish.
So begins the evolution of tools and technology. Technology by nature is something man made, and as we evolved mentally, technology evolved with us. Examples of this are ever present around us, from stone scratching and engravings on walls and pillars in Rome, to the modern computers we all have come proficient in (unless you live in the stone ages, as they say.) We have lost sight of the fact that we are evolving every moment. Knowledge and wisdom are considered the seventh sphere in the spheres of nature other wise known as the noosphere. Just as with the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the others the noosphere changes and evolves as the systems within it change.
Technological evolution is therefore tied to the evolution of the species connected to it. In animals these are the traits that give there owners distinctive colors, poisons, or weapons that assist in guaranteeing there existence in the generation to come; the basis of natural selection. Our rapidly deteriorating ecosystem and exponential consumption of resources now force our evolution. With the pollutants we have developed, it is by technology that they have come about. Only higher technology can eradicate these hazards.
These hazards being things like chloroflouro carbons, halo carbons, hazardous waste, and ecological encroachment which all help in destroying the ozone and atmosphere; one of the most vital spheres in our ecology. A small abnormal adjustment in this area can cause the entire pyramid that man sits upon, to fall. In man, our technology is our guarantee of survival, seeing as we have stepped outside the realm of natural selection, becoming dominators of the environment, adversely affecting all seven spheres of nature.
"Terranus has come to the point where I believe we find ourselves [humanity] currently. They can either continue on their current course; i.e. disintegration of their ecosystem, wars, pestilence, and divisions; or find a way to live peaceably. Let say - by some truly miraculous understanding - the Terranians come to realize the error in being divided and decide to unite. "
Terranus begins to realize the benefits of global unity, better schools, increased productivity, and more technological advancements in shorter periods of time. This is a segment of mental evolution. Mental evolution is in close relationship with Theistic evolution, in that both exist outside the physical world, but nevertheless affect it. Whether you believe in The Creator, it took something with order to take chaos and give it structure. Based upon that same principle, man has structured the world to suit his thoughts. Taking nature, with its minerals and creatures, man has given it a structure of machines with moving parts controlled through circuitry. Technology, as define in the 2002 World Book published by World Book Inc., refers to the inventions - including tools, techniques, and processes - that design to make it easier for people to satisfy their needs and desires. To get to a level of technological aptitude for biomechanical evolution to be possible, this step in technology is necessary for a civilization to accomplish.
So begins the evolution of tools and technology. Technology by nature is something man made, and as we evolved mentally, technology evolved with us. Examples of this are ever present around us, from stone scratching and engravings on walls and pillars in Rome, to the modern computers we all have come proficient in (unless you live in the stone ages, as they say.) We have lost sight of the fact that we are evolving every moment. Knowledge and wisdom are considered the seventh sphere in the spheres of nature other wise known as the noosphere. Just as with the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the others the noosphere changes and evolves as the systems within it change.
Technological evolution is therefore tied to the evolution of the species connected to it. In animals these are the traits that give there owners distinctive colors, poisons, or weapons that assist in guaranteeing there existence in the generation to come; the basis of natural selection. Our rapidly deteriorating ecosystem and exponential consumption of resources now force our evolution. With the pollutants we have developed, it is by technology that they have come about. Only higher technology can eradicate these hazards.
These hazards being things like chloroflouro carbons, halo carbons, hazardous waste, and ecological encroachment which all help in destroying the ozone and atmosphere; one of the most vital spheres in our ecology. A small abnormal adjustment in this area can cause the entire pyramid that man sits upon, to fall. In man, our technology is our guarantee of survival, seeing as we have stepped outside the realm of natural selection, becoming dominators of the environment, adversely affecting all seven spheres of nature.
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