Evolution - not just by chance?

Christian de Duve, a Nobel prize winner, speaks about evolution and inevitability. It may be that it's not pure chance that guides evolution.
Why did  life and we humans occur here? De Duve opens up for that it was inevitable that we would occur after some billion years of life on earth.

In that case, it may be that creatures similar to us lives on other planets far away.
But it may also mean that they have destroyed their own civilization.

Anyway de Duve tells us that evolution will go on, and disasters as the hurricane Katrina, may push us to go forward. Perhaps will our brains be bigger. Or maybe we will use biotechnology to make us smarter.
As de Duve means, evolution has made us smarter in the past, but not more wise.  Maybe we didn't need that in the past.
But nowadays phronesis, practical wisdom, is really needed.
We are still a quite young race. And we may change a lot. If the brain changes we may see "reality" in very different way.
And we for sure need that.
Both de Duve and Buddhist use the term "ultimate reality".

Maybe  the age of women is coming.
I guess that would mean a change for the world.

Here is one of the young and very gifted women that can shape the future.





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