The Role of Action in Evolution: Evolution By Process and the Ecological Approach To Perception

Ho, Mae‐Wan

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“…It is precisely this difference in orientation to the environment that most fundamentally distinguishes the mariners from those who do not dwell in the watery regions. To borrow Ho's (1991) analogy of the ecological approach to perception, the waters of Southeast Asia is transparent and possesses depth. This is because the more one looks, the more one can see into it.…”

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The Water World of the Orang Suku Laut in Southeast Asia

Chou¹

2016

TRaNS

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This article explores how the Orang Suku Laut, an indigenous Malay roving fishing community, perceives the water world in Southeast Asia. Their rites of childbirth, naming and the enculturation of their young present invaluable ethnographic data that challenge us to develop new ways to conceptualise 'water spaces' as well as to widen our academic inquiry into the less understood ways of spatial imaginings.

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The Water World of the Orang Suku Laut in Southeast Asia

Chou¹

2016

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“…Whereas neo-Darwinists have traditionally regarded the natural or biological being as given (predominantly by its genetic make-up), and hence separate from the social entity, which is only a gloss on the biological, the new evolutionary theory recognizes and insists upon the continuity and inseparability between the two (see Ho and Saunders, 1982;Ho, 1988bHo, , 1992d. This same theme is now taken up by anthropologist Tim Ingold (1992), who argues that 'personhood' arises epigenetically as much as the organism.…”

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Evolutionary theory and World Future

1993

World Futures

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Evolutionary theory is intimately tied up with the destiny of human society. As the Darwinian era is drawing to a close with advances in the new molecular genetics as well as in our understanding of the dynamics and biophysics of living organization, evolutionary biologists are presented with deep challenges as to how their theory will relate to the world future and the new world order. Two main aspects that have the greatest implications are: dynamic order in nature and the integration of nature and culture.Traditionally, natural order has been construed in linear mechanical terms. By contrast, we now know that natural dynamical relationships are nonlinear and cyclical. The extent to which dynamic stability is based on feed-back interconnections between living system and environment, on complex space-time structure, on cooperativity and coherence are all important topics for future investigation.Whereas neo-Darwinists have tended to regard the biological being as given, and hence separate from the social entity, which is only a gloss on the biological, the new evolutionary theory recognizes and insists upon the continuity and inseparability between the two. The challenge to evolutionary biologists is the final desconstruction of the Darwinian man who has dominated the world for at least 150 years. In his stead, we should reinstate the natural social being motivated by love. In this way, we shall work towards a future 'coherent society' of natural beings living in harmony with nature's creative process where we shall nurture individual freedom and diversity with universal love.

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“…So there is, I contend, a real parallel in the modern constitution between the book of nature and the nature of the book, each understood as a completed work whose contents can be deciphered by those with the keys to do so. The parallel lies in the idea that both are to be read in silence: not in the course of an ongoing conversation whose manifold participants open up to one another and whose stories intertwine, but as a record of results that – rendered inert and impassive, in objective and objectified forms – have turned their back on us, presenting to our inspection only what Mae‐Wan Ho has called an ‘opaque, flat, frozen surface of literalness’ (: 348). To science, the facts are given; they comprise the ‘data’.…”

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Dreaming of dragons: on the imagination of real life

Ingold

2013

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article draws on studies of medieval monasticism and northern indigenous ontologies to show how we might heal the rupture between the real world and our imagination of it, which underpins the official procedures of modern science. Though science is not averse to dreams of the imagination as potential sources of novel insight, they are banished from the reality it seeks to uncover. Ever since Bacon and Galileo, nature has been thought of as a book that will not willingly give up its secrets to human readers. The idea of the book of nature, however, dates from medieval times. For medieval readers as for indigenous hunters, creatures would speak and offer counsel. But in the transition to modernity the book was silenced. This article suggests that by acknowledging our imaginative participation in a more‐than‐human world, and the commitments this entails, we can reconcile scientific inquiry with religious sensibility as ways of knowing in being.

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The Role of Action in Evolution: Evolution By Process and the Ecological Approach To Perception

Cited by 9 publications

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The Water World of the Orang Suku Laut in Southeast Asia

The Water World of the Orang Suku Laut in Southeast Asia

Evolutionary theory and World Future

Dreaming of dragons: on the imagination of real life

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