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- progress
- progress trap
- maladaptive
- cultural evolution
- attention
- focus of attention
- Exploring this statement further, it isn't just that it is our dualistic thinking applied here is a problem
- but that it is the very nature of human analytic reasoning coupled with our innate ability to focus our attention which requires a deep unpacking
- For to focus on an object of attention
- is something we can only accomplish by defocusing on everything else
- Indeed, it is the very act of attention on the one, that is inextricably accompanied by the act of inattention of the many
- Our body, and that of many other organisms is evolutionarily designed
- to focus our attention in our field of view on emergent phenomena that is salient to our survival
- The nature of reductionist-type research
- which is to say, most research
- is that we continue applying this evolved adaptive behavior, even though cultural evolution (ie. progress) has accelerated exponentially to such an extent
- that this same biologically evolved behavior has become maladaptive in the context of modernity