These ideas matter. How humans define the world determines their world. Humans used to define the world through God and believed God determined the world. After Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace discovered the theory of evolution that began to wrestle away and humans have fallen into a similar trap of mindset with evolution determining the world. We’ve moved from a “God did it” misguidance, to a “Evolution did it” misguidance.

It is one thing to be aware that humans can express themselves into the external in words and artefacts, but another level of awareness is to know that humans _can’t not_ express themselves. In relation to evolution that is a profound game-changer. We go from the slow gradual degrees of undirected evolution by natural selection over geological time to a new dimension, of cultural expression which is consciously selected, organised and managed by one species, humankind. 

Don’t believe me? Think about the term ‘artificial’. Before humans there is nothing artificial in the entire universe, and that includes evolution. Evolution with explanatory power over the organic doesn’t do artificial. Now, look at the human world all around you, there is literally nothing that is not artificial in form, construction and process. 

Mark N Cowan, Glasgow

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