While evolution in the Darwin sense is a convenient theory in Science, it really has no place in Philosophy.Alias wrote: ↑December 31st, 2018, 12:01 amBut that makes it an impossible question.
Evolution is a process of selection for traits that best equip and individual to thrive and reproduce in a given environment. Species can't select for environments that they themselves are changing. They could only ever be prepared to function in the environment of their parents' time, and thus be always, inevitably, maladapted to whatever it's changing into.
He might as well have asked: Can we grow feet that match a pair of Zanotti shoes?
I say, designers make shoes for human feet, not the other way around. And, no, we can't even design babies that will be perfect for their own time, because their time is still in the process of being made; not only can we not select for it, we can't even make an accurate guess at what it will be.
Civilization is not a given. It's a byproduct of humans living their lives: it adapts to and is continually adapted by the way humans live their lives. How it is organized, how it works and what happens to it are the ongoing processes of human interaction.
Philosophy deals with the body and soul and mind.
Not evolution.