My own view on the question of #progress—#scientific, #technical, #social, #moral,…—is that #novelty, of the sort that tends to persist, is a result of #synergies "discovered" via #EvolutionaryProcesses with trajectories that are essentially unpredictable.
Novel systems that express greater effectiveness over greater scope, or increased coherence over increased context of meaning-making, are anti-entropic and therefore tend to persist. Lather, rinse, repeat…
My own view on the question of #progress—#scientific, #technical, #social, #moral,…—is that #novelty, of the sort that tends to persist, is a result of #synergies "discovered" via #EvolutionaryProcesses with trajectories that are essentially unpredictable.
Novel systems that express greater effectiveness over greater scope, or increased coherence over increased context of meaning-making, are anti-entropic and therefore tend to persist. Lather, rinse, repeat…
I'm an evolutionary biologist studying floral traits in the plant families #Plantaginaceae and #Solanaceae. I've done a lot of hopping between sub-fields. My background is in #Biochemistry and #ProteinEvolution. PhD work on the evolution of binding specificity following #GeneDuplication. Postdoctoral work on #FlowerColor #Phylogenomics #MetabolicPathway evolution and #AdaptiveIntrogression. Broader goal is understanding #EvolutionaryProcesses and outcomes across #ScalesOfBiologicalOrganization.
