Fw: Beyond Darwin

[snappydresser]

 Has anyone here (other than me) read Howard Bloom's The Lucifer Principle?
It addresses some of the points you bring up.

 Cheers!
YOPJ

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> Subject: Beyond Darwin
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>> The Big Bang, at this point in the expansion, is becoming passe'.
>> I mean, haven't you folks  heard about the Multiverse?
>>
>> http://www.bizspirit.com/science/kaku,%20michio%20wkshop.html
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>> And Neo-Darwinism: "Random Mutations", "Survival of the Chosen",
>> ""Natural' Selection"  is certainly,  by any conceivable stretch,
>>  at least quaint.
>>
>> Competition may explain why you love/hate your brother, and
>> still have those old DOORS albums, but please... We did not get
>> here by competing.
>>
>> Cooperation is what it's all about. It's a feminine thing-  dig it:
>>
>> http://www.bio.umass.edu/faculty/biog/margulis.html
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>> Lyn Margulis has been positing cooperation as the organizing
>> principle of biological evolution for awhile now, and her
>> insights are pretty much the accepted version of eukaryosis.
>>
>> Serial Endosymbiotic Theory- "SET"  for short, seems to be the
>> most logical explanation for the emergence of complex biological
>> structure/systems. It puts the W back in holistic. I think it is the only
>> way to understand the emergence of the animate-  not present at
>> the Big Bang.
>>
>> jody
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