Sunday, January 20, 2019

Genius, Evolution, Evolvement

In contemporary common parlance, 'a genius' is someone fluent in abstruse Physics formulas, and 'evolution' has something to do with the 'survival of the fittest'.  On that basis, a systematic connection between Genius and Evolution is not easy to discern.  But, 'a genius' trivializes the original connotation of a super-personal force guiding a person's behavior, which Kant applies to Artists.  And, 'evolution' has never been formally defined.  To correct the latter, what has been proposed here is 'an increase in Complexity', with Complexity defined as a characteristic of a Unified Multiplicity.  Furthermore, in order to avoid confusion with the vagueness of common parlance, the term 'Evolvement' has been introduced to signify an increase in Complexity.  So, Evolvement is distinguished in at leat two ways from Darwinian 'Evolution'--it is independent of any Survival principle, and it can be in effect at more than moments of new species origination. In other words, Evolvement can occur at any time during, and perhaps throughout, the course of the history of a species.  Hence, for example, an introduction of increased visual powers by means of a Genius painter, can constitute an Evolvemental episode.

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