Seawrack and the Mother

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 01 Oct 2012, 18:54 · from 2012-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 11:54:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Seawrack and the Mother
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> From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>To: "urth at urth.net" <urth at urth.net> 
>Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 2:34 PM
>Subject: (urth) Seawrack and the Mother
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>>Certainly sex allows faster evolution by increasing the rate of combinations...
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>Agreed. Even among the most highly evolved (i.e. specialized) invertebrates, like insects,
>assigned gender and sexual reproduction have become locked in.
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>>...which is directly relevant to the theme of incrementally evolving moral progress
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>I'll argue that evolution of morality in a species is a product of intelligence (choice-
>making ability) and social living more than sex, per se.
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>---What I meant by this: Wolfe clearly describes a system in which universes "flower" and die and slowly get morally better and better. This is the very picture of evolution applied to our moral nature. Before sexual reproduction, evolution was very slow because there was no mechanical recombination, only mutation through damage. Flowers are a sexual apparatus. Sex made intelligence and the human hive mind possible by speeding up evolution and enlarging the possibilities. So in a sense a "sexy" universe of two halves that can mix and separate, like oil and water or good and evil, is more evolved, and more conducive to evolution, than one that is unitary and, in comparison, changeless and flat. Literally, it brings us closer to God on this vast thematic scale.
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>This is entirely on a symbolic level. As for actual human sexuality itself---well, let's say it's been the topic of much discussion over 2,000 years.
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