Elemental
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological kind, but are psychic events… man is exposed to the elemental forces of his own psyche.
The Existence Theorem
It is possible for societies to live and prosper with advanced technology.
Sagan calls this the Existence Theorem. The evidence presented here does not favor it.
We have surmised that intelligent dinosaurs, the anthroposaurs, destroyed their world 65 million years ago. And the omens are that we too are heading for extinction. At the end of the Cretaceous the vertebrate biomass concentrated into a few highly populous species. Today the same thing is happening.
Now, mankind, the new intelligent lifeform, breeds the few species at the expense of the many. Then, it was the intelligent dinosaur. Genetic variation was narrowed by breeding and environmental destruction until it virtually did not exist. It was literally genocide—without the genes to cope with the slightest stresses, the remaining species died off too.
History is repeating itself. The Existence Theorem is bunk!
Why do things tend to repeat themselves? Karl Popper speaks of the “propensity” that some event will occur. Propensity is probability with intent—it exerts an influence on events as if it were a physical field like an electric or gravitational field. It is reminiscent of Sheldrake’s morphogenetic fields. Controversial though they are, these hypotheses imply that when something occurs, it has more chance of happening again. If true, and the anthroposaurs have already destroyed themselves, we might be locked into an outcome that will be nigh on impossible—might be impossible—to alter.
Is it our destiny to verify the Existence Theorem or our fate to falsify it. To verify it we have to break free of a morphogenetic field, to establish a new propensity. We seem to have less chance of doing so than deflecting an incoming planetoid.
Where is the will to change our behavior? Where is the mechanism to do it? Do we suffer from the same affliction as the anthroposaurs and perhaps all intelligent life forms—some self-destructive syndrome that is a sine qua non of intelligence? If the answer is “yes” we are doomed. Even if we can see the fault in ourselves, we are powerless to change it.
I believe we have a legacy from the dinosaurs. It is part of our psyche. We cannot reject it.
It is our dinosaur heritage!
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