What Is Evolution's Elephant In The Room?
Have you ever marveled at the sight of a flock of birds, a swarm of insects, or a school of fish, all moving as if with one mind; not just in a single direction, but almost as a living cloud, twisting this way and that, over and around invisible obstacles in air or water.
And every time we wonder, how do they do it?
Might one of them set the course for all the rest to follow by visual, auditory, or other cues, or do they together somehow intuit where the entire flock is headed and where each individual in the swarm belongs?
Does the first minnow actually lead, or is he or she merely the front fish for the will of the school?
And if the one at the head of the formation falls back, how is it decided that another--and which one--will automatically take over?
The answer is that they function as a Group Soul.
(Illustrated): The Elephant in the Room, Banksy exhibition, 2006 Barely Legal show, Los Angeles
But how can we humans understand that, since we left our Group Souls behind and individuated long ago.
I'm suggesting around 10,000 years ago.
And because we no longer 'get it', it's not our experience any more, I'm guessing that, in the case of evolution, it is usually the unobserved elephant in the room.
Well of course, movement and behaviour are not physical objects that can be studied, even under the microscope.
We won't learn the reason by observation.
That's because this group behaviour among animals belongs to the 'other evolution', the soul evolution, and we have determined the rules of evolution (such as they are) according to our own, observable, experiencable evolution, the physical evolution.
Which serves to make my point, that there are in fact two different evolutions, each with its own rules and own phenomena.
It's the ginormous elephant in the room that gives the game away.
Neil
And every time we wonder, how do they do it?
Might one of them set the course for all the rest to follow by visual, auditory, or other cues, or do they together somehow intuit where the entire flock is headed and where each individual in the swarm belongs?
Does the first minnow actually lead, or is he or she merely the front fish for the will of the school? And if the one at the head of the formation falls back, how is it decided that another--and which one--will automatically take over?
The answer is that they function as a Group Soul.
(Illustrated): The Elephant in the Room, Banksy exhibition, 2006 Barely Legal show, Los Angeles
But how can we humans understand that, since we left our Group Souls behind and individuated long ago.
I'm suggesting around 10,000 years ago.
And because we no longer 'get it', it's not our experience any more, I'm guessing that, in the case of evolution, it is usually the unobserved elephant in the room.
Well of course, movement and behaviour are not physical objects that can be studied, even under the microscope.
We won't learn the reason by observation.
That's because this group behaviour among animals belongs to the 'other evolution', the soul evolution, and we have determined the rules of evolution (such as they are) according to our own, observable, experiencable evolution, the physical evolution.
Which serves to make my point, that there are in fact two different evolutions, each with its own rules and own phenomena.
It's the ginormous elephant in the room that gives the game away.
Neil