Fate and Free Will/Evolution

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Dennis wrote:

Could you explain what you meant by "If determinism was

 

absolute then evolution could not have got going."? Evolution

 

seems very well explained by random mutations, adaptations,

 

survival etc. pretty much as per Darwin. Where is free will

 

in that picture?

 

Hello Dennis,

If I were of an eristic disposition it would appear that I have

 

given you a free head lock there. The germ of a reply, which

 

won't leave me free at one bound, is along panpsychist lines?

 

How could consciousness emerge or evolve?

 

Let us suppose that it is in some nascent way always there,

 

always on. This would not be too far away from the

 

satkaryavada theory where the cause is non-different from the

 

effect. Sat-Cit-Ananda is the fundamental being of all this

 

but creation has to develop the structures that can reflect

 

this. Evolution was moving towards this. Now that humans are

 

here with the capacity for transcendence that structure

 

creating impetus is over. How can I be sure of this? Well

 

there are Masters/Bodhisattvas who have gone the distance.

 

This leaves the Darwinian theories intact, though as Science

 

they are sure to be modified some time in the future. I append

 

my speculation as to why evolution moved towards structures

 

that could reflect consciousness i.e. brain/mind. The very

 

earth is in eternal dhyana it says in a Veda somewhere.

Best Wishes, Michael