Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Simpson appears here primarily as a historical figure in twentieth-century evolutionary theory whose work is cited in discussions of how evolution functions as a worldview extending beyond science into culture and philosophy. The course readings invoke him through secondary sources (particularly Smocovitis's *Unifying Biology*) to establish how evolutionary thinking shaped broader debates about life's meaning and humanity's place in a potentially populated cosmos. His specific arguments remain largely implicit in these excerpts, serving mainly to anchor the intellectual genealogy of how biological science intersects with existential and cosmological questions relevant to AI and posthuman futures.

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Steven J. Dick

Cosmic Evolution from Cosmos and Culture

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Since Darwin propounded his theory of evolution by natural selection, evolution has been much more than a science. It has been a worldview that has affected culture in numerous ways, and different cultures in diverse ways.[^23] As we have n…In short, both in our relationship with extraterrestrials and with God—however conceived—human destiny would be quite different in a universe full of biologicals or postbiologicals than if we were alone. If extraterrestrial intelligence is …24. Smocovitis, Unifying Biology, pp. 142–153: 148. Connie Barlow’s book of readings, Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), clearly shows these wider evolutionary themes. Cosmos and…

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