Dear All,
I have just sent the following (now slightly revised) message to the
inclusional research discussion group.
I feel it may have much relevance to how really to understand the
difference between natural educational inclusion and unnatural selection.
Perhaps we need to let go of the junk thinking that lures us into
rubbishing ourselves and one another!
Warmest
Alan
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Date: 10 April 2008 08:38 +0100
From: "Alan Rayner (BU)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: The Simplistic Nature of Favouritism - and How It Produces 'Junk'
Dear All,
Ted Lumley's impassioned missive regarding the relation between the notion
of 'Junk DNA' and prevalent ideas about 'junk people' draws attention to
what I think is the most fundamental social, psychological and
environmental implication of inclusionality:
In a continually evolving energy flow, there is no such thing as 'junk'.
Neither is there any such thing as individual 'perfection' in isolation
from others.
The very idea of 'junk' arises from the kind of favouritism evident in
Darwin's description of 'natural selection' as 'the preservation of
favoured races in the struggle for life'.
Such favouritism is the product of rationalistic exclusion, most
fundamentally of all the exclusion of 'space' from 'matter', such that only
the latter 'counts', as in the discreteness/discontinuity embedded in the
simplistic foundations of classical and modern mathematics and objectivist
science. It produces a very partial, postscriptive and prescriptive view of
history and evolution in which only the 'big hitters' count and there is no
play in the system for improvisational co-creativity. It leads inexorably
to eugenics and the motivations for fascism. It alienates the loving
influence of receptive spatial context that makes evolution possible in the
first place. It negates negativity in a misogynistic 'false positivism'
that denies our natural source.
This is why it is so crucial for us to develop and communicate the kinds of
mathematics and physics based on transfigurality, and evolutionary
understanding based on natural inclusion, that can help us out of the fix
of producing more and more junk by objective definition.
Everest isn't the only mountain in the Himalayas. The Great White isn't the
only fish in the sea. The solute isn't alone in the solution. Alone, stuck
on top of the pyramidal adaptive peaks of their ascendent architecture,
they are going nowhere fast.
The simplisticity of favouritism not only produces junk, it is junk! And
our rationalistic modern human culture of perversely discontinuous flow is
full of it!
Warmest
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