Teleology is a very specialized philosphophical discipline that once, but no longer, is considered to be rooted in real world science. It is the idea that there is a purpose to things. There is still a vestigal presence in biology, but it has been removed, as too unscientific, in most academic sciences.
And yet, there is the evidence of the evidence of evidence itself. The universe's seeming habit of ignoring its own laws of entropy and constantly developing into higher and higher patterns of self-organizing, increasingly complex entities: galaxies, people, moles, oats, etc..
I've been reading a lot of Terence McKenna and others who posit that it is exactly a teleological horizon that sits in wait for us on the otherside of history, not so far from us now.
Has teleology gotten a bad rap? Is it good to remove concepts such as purpose from the universe, since we've decided that lots of monkey's could just as easily typed up a better universe anyway? I'm at a loss.
Could just be the fever, of course...
And yet, there is the evidence of the evidence of evidence itself. The universe's seeming habit of ignoring its own laws of entropy and constantly developing into higher and higher patterns of self-organizing, increasingly complex entities: galaxies, people, moles, oats, etc..
I've been reading a lot of Terence McKenna and others who posit that it is exactly a teleological horizon that sits in wait for us on the otherside of history, not so far from us now.
Has teleology gotten a bad rap? Is it good to remove concepts such as purpose from the universe, since we've decided that lots of monkey's could just as easily typed up a better universe anyway? I'm at a loss.
Could just be the fever, of course...