[ExI] Anti-transhumanist crap on Kuro5hin and related.

[Kevin H]

On 11/11/07, scerir <scerir at libero.it> wrote:
>
> This reminds me of J. Steinbeck.
> "Non-teleological thinking concerns itself
> primarily not with what should be, or could be,
> or might be, but rather with what actually 'is'
> .... attempting at most to answer the already
> sufficiently difficult questions 'what' or 'how',
> instead of 'why' ... In the non-teleological sense
> there can be no 'answer'. There can be only pictures
> which become larger and more significant as one's
> horizon increases."


If we're referencing Aristotle here, what about the other four causes?
Aren't efficient causes, material causes, and formal causes also
explanations and answers to the question "why"?  The only thing teleology
says is that some natural purpose for the thing is the explanation for that
thing and how it develops.  For example, the hand was developed because of
our need for grasping things, or the sexual drive was developed because for
the sake of reproduction.  While this kind of thinking is easy to entertain,
the theory of evolution contradicts it.

Thanks for your comments,

Kevin
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