-- We evolve physically to grow healthier and live longer, but far more important is mental evolution, using technology to overcome our physical limitations and gain more power over Nature.
And more important, on the first day of classes I discuss the importance of education, and I emphasize that education is all about change (self-transformation) and that change can come only with new knowledge (learning) and its application in evaluating our system of beliefs and ideology (leading to mental evolution).
Einstein had asked: "Is it possible to control man's mental evolution so as to make him proof against the psychosis of hate and destructiveness?" Freud replied that "there is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies".
As an educator, I urge my students not to be afraid of such changes, because they lead to mental evolution.
The mental evolution fell mostly to Yuki, who won court custody when his son was an infant.
Taking up Spencer's view that the adjustment of the organism to the environment is the basic feature of mental evolution, James charges that Spencer projects his own vision of what ought to be onto the phenomena he claims to describe.
Insurmountable self doubts aside, Roddenberry always believed in our potential to do the right thing; time was the only recipe to our mental evolution.
Natural selection, random genetic mutations, and raw competition for food and mating privileges, which form the foundation of Darwinian evolution, either don't apply to us anymore or have been drastically minimized, pushed to the fringes while mental evolution occupies center stage.
Naturalism, in its simplest sense, is the doctrine that there is nothing beyond nature, not even the organic or mental, and evolution is thus generally a crucial component of it.
