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0105 At this point, Darwinism can be reformulated into a dyadic structure more suitable for overlaying onto the noumenon, since components of the structure<\/em> are readily identified as phenomena<\/em> or the stuff of models<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0106 Here is a picture of Darwinism portrayed as an S&T noumenal overlay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0107 What about simplification?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder whether this is where the English polymath, Herbert Spencer, comes into the picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

0108 Natural selection3b<\/sub> operates on the potential of exploiting an actuality independent of the adapting species1b<\/sub><\/em> and supports an evolutionary model3b<\/sub> that Spencer labels, “survival of the fittest”<\/em>.  It’s like a habit. Today, “survival of the fittest” is less provocatively named “differential reproductive success”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0109 An adaptation is objectively oriented towards a goal. Do what it takes<\/em> to stay alive.  So, the contiguity between the objective adaptation and the goal of staying alive<\/em> may be labeled, “a choice”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0110 Finally, nature asks, “If I bred animals for specific traits, what would I wish for?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would I wish for a dog that scurries down badger burrows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would I wish for a dog that runs a race-track and wins?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0111 Only a genius would tease out a simplification<\/em> capable of transforming the discipline of biology<\/em> from the scribbles of natural philosophers<\/em> to the notebooks of scientific dachshunds<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0112 Spencer’s evolutionary vision<\/em> is beautiful in its radical simplicity<\/em>.  It is what the noumenon must be,<\/em> if Darwin’s evolutionary schema<\/em> is to be applicable.  For decades, most biologists demur, saying, “I would rather study biology as pure mechanism or through observations of natural phenomena.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0113 But, Spencer’s breakthrough cannot be denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the same decades, other post-Christendom polymaths begin working out the machinations of other “evolutionary visions”, in which an intellectual<\/em> (or, should I say, “oligarchal”) vanguard<\/em> selectively “habituates” humans according to their ideological formulations<\/em> (wishes).  Adapt to our wish-filled system<\/em> or die.  In some jurisdictions, this mandate becomes the human’s choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that sounds existential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0114 But, it establishes a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some biological sciences, triumphalist scientists can overlay the noumenon with a successful model, just as in chemistry and physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For other biological sciences, something else is going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharov and Tonnessen’s dyad<\/em> is not the first non-mechanistic noumenal overlay<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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