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Journal: November 19, 2010
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Evolution: I don’t think it’s necessarily “survival of the fittest”. It may be more, “survival of the barely fit”, i.e. survival of everything that is NOT fittest. So lots of things that aren’t the “fittest” are around, probably including us humans. But existence implies fitness, so everything is fit as it need to be. It is at its “full potential” which is “good enough”.

I share with a tree and I suppose a mountain the inevitability of my existence and impermanence. Only the present is inevitable, and I suppose the past, but the future is infinite possibilities, only one of which manifests itself at the “present”, the one possibility that was inevitable, or, I should say, evitable.

Reductionism (generalization) seems to be an attempt to reduce the number of possible futures to some fraction of infinity, its ultimate goal to one, i.e. to become gods.

Morality: I see morality as a source of conflict, both internally with self and externally between and among people and their organizations, including nations.