Friday, April 16, 2010

Teleological Evolutionary Epistemology

The term Teleological Evolutionary Epistemology could apply the concepts of biological evolution to the growth of human knowledge. It would argue, like “Evolutionary epistemology”, “that the mind is in part genetically determined and that its structure and function reflect adaptation...” But unlike Evolutionary Epistemology, Teleological Evolutionary Epistemology suggests a teleological process of interaction between the organism, its environment, and the activating Spirit-Will within, which activates material life to evolve to Godhood. We would agree that “a cognitive trait tending to increase inclusive fitness in a given population should therefore grow more common over time, and a trait tending to prevent its carriers from passing on their genes should show up less and less frequently,” but the Godhood-directed Spirit-Will also has to be figured in this dynamic. Minds  thus evolve from man-minds to the highest minds possible, and eventually evolve to the Absolute Truths in the mind or minds of real Godhood. I believe that evolution evolves from man to superman to Gods to Godhood, whereupon the cycle often begins again, although each cosmos is somewhat different than the one it evolves from, due to the ongoing evolutionary process.

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