From Darwin to Derrida by Haig David; Dennett Daniel C.;
Author:Haig, David; Dennett, Daniel C.; [Haig, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Evolution; genetics; gene; human nature; philosophy of biology; information; meaning; purpose; teleology; cause; final causes; formal causes; form; ultimate cause; natural selection; choice; evolution; morality; genes; selfish gene; genetics; memes; memetics; freedom; soul; self; internal conflict; divided self; empathy; mechanism; semantics; synchrony; diachrony; Geisteswissenschaften; homology; morphology; creativity; structure; function; riboswitch; automaton; hermeneutics; attractor; butterfly effect; chicken; egg; recursion; words; etymology; language; consciousness; philosophy; biology; history; narrative; just-so-stories; mutation; possible; actual
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-03-06T00:00:00+00:00
I have spoken of selection as the paramount power, yet its action absolutely depends on what we in our ignorance call spontaneous or accidental variability. Let an architect be compelled to build an edifice with uncut stones, fallen from a precipice. . . . If our architect succeeded in rearing a noble edifice . . . we should admire his skill even in a higher degree than if he had used stones shaped for the purpose. So it is with selection, whether applied by man or by nature; for although variability is indispensably necessary, yet, when we look at some highly complex and excellently adapted organism, variability sinks to a quite subordinate position in importance with selection, in the same manner as the shape of each fragment used by our supposed architect is unimportant in comparison with his skill. (1883/1998, 236)
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