2012

September

It is tacitly assumed in evolutionary thought that selection processes will produce the individual most suited to an environment. The environment in this sense means the outside, objective world. Whittled down by evolution, the biological being is transformed into the complement of its world. There is assumed in this dialectical relationship, that of an individual interacting with a continuum of being, a predisposition of the abstract constraints to produce an entity which functions perfectly at the level of the concrete. The world, however, cannot be localized in one factical representation, but is rather the network of possible occurrences. An object can be interpreted consistently within multiple frameworks, contradiction spared by the mutual exclusion of subjective viewpoints, though nevertheless anchored to a singular data point. It is therefore too much to ask of the concept of evolution that its resultant align with the so-called world.