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Following up on this, I have written the attached short essay. Warmest Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Rayner" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:30 AM Subject: The Simplistic Nature of Favouritism - and How It Produces 'Junk' (fwd) > 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 > > > ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ > 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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Inclusional Research" group. To post to this group, send email to > [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from this group, > send > email to [log in to unmask] For more > options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/inclusional-research?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > > ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- >