Abstract

symbolic language to which are linked the very existence and development of reason, as Wilson explains in note I4 to chapter 4 @. 237). This charaueristic explains why our species adapts to nature not merely by means of the long slow process of biological evolution (like all living species), but also by the iniitely shorter method of adaptive 'calculation' which is consciously rational. Of course, this is not to say that adaptive errors as serious as those occurring in biological evolution cannot arise, even dough an intrinsic feature of rational activity is that satisfactory correcting mechanisms

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