Niche Construction

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Discussion

This definition can only be understood under the assumption that evolution itself is a fauceir and behaves like a fauceir. As such evolution submits itself to the fauceir rules in general and rules of fauceir evolution in particular.

In the book Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution by Odling-Smee, Laland, Feldman a comprehensive overview of niche construction is given [Error: Wrong macro arguments: "http://zotero.org/users/438144/items/7NJ4SSM9" for macro 'ref' (maybe wrong macro tag syntax?)] . The book even ventures to to explain niche construction as a universal process of evolution, which comes as no surprise as the authors manage to develop the principle of niche construction to an ever new level of abstraction at which a wider perspective might be visible. From fauceir perspective , in fact niche construction plays an essential role to create new fauceirs from which natural selection would take advantage.

As niche construction is a universal process in evolution, it comes as no suprise that its function can be detected at various levels of evolution. For instance also at the evolution of cognition and itellectual abilities [Error: Wrong macro arguments: "http://zotero.org/users/438144/items/SEJ2XXFF" for macro 'ref' (maybe wrong macro tag syntax?)] .

Examples

• The textbook example is the beaver that builds dams to significantly change the environment.
• The whole evolution on earth can be viewed as a niche construction. This is true not only since humans began to changed the environment and make it more inhabitable for its own species. Long before humans came into existence life on earth changed the environment, but these changes happened slower than now.
• The most fervent examples of niche construction can be observed at the social level. Different social groups tend to change social rules, so that they eventually profit the most. All politics is just about construction and extension of social niches.

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Insulation

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Conclusions

• Insulation leads to blindness.
• As discussed elsewhere insulation is an essential element of evolution.

The insulation rule of evolution states that fauceirs tend to escape interactions with other fauceirs to make themselves invisible.

It is closely related to the visibility rule. While the visibility rule more general states what is visible and what is not the insulation rule of evolution describes a tendency of evolutionary progress.

Three aspects of that evolutionary tendency can be distinguished:

1. Parasitism
2. Levtence
3. Decontexualization

All these tendencies have in common thet thei are triggered by selectional pressure.

Prerequisite for those degenerations to persist is not only insulation but also compensation by other fauceirs.

Examples

1. The shrinking of human brain.
2. bureaucracy
3. monopolization
4. autocracies and the manipulation of votes, voters corruption

Analogy Rule

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Rational Proof

1. As everything an analogy is but a fauceir which evolves in human rational thinking.
2. Each fauceir consists of a set of element fauceirs.
3. Abstraction is just the method of blinding out sub-element fauceirs (see Rule of Progressive Blinding) in thinking.
4. If the level of abstraction is high enough (the extend of neglected specifics bold enough) fauceirs of thinking become comparable and can be handled as same objects of thinking.

Conclusions

• Analogy is but a device of human rational thinking. It is just a new fauceir of thinking created from existing ones.
• Analogy is tightly connected to abstraction. An abstraction is useful if and only if it allows for an broader analogy. As the 'if and only if' statement indicates the reverse is also true: An abstraction is useless of it doesn't allow for a more general analogy.
• Analogies of thinking have not to be confused with analog organs, for instance.

Examples

As analogy is but a scientific tool of rational exploration examples only belong to human thinking.

• Newton's physics is applicable to mass points in vacuum only, sill this abstraction allows a fairly good mathematical modelling of the movement of stars and planets.
• Model animal allow the discovery of pharmaceutical interactions and genetic causations.

Delegation Rule

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Rational Proof

1. By definition a fauceir is but a set of element fauceirs.
2. If a fauceir wants to defeat an other fauceir it cannot but employ its elements to fulfill the task.

Conclusions

From this rule and the Visibility Rule follows that only such element fauceirs can fight each other that posses mutual visibility.

Examples

This rule seems quite obvious but there are many instances when discussions lead into a philosophical cul-de-sac simply by not observing this rule. Examples will be listed that are blatantly obvious and more hidden. Please that the differences in visibility sometime only depend upon the observer's Denkhemmung.

• In physics, elementary particles can attack each other only by their magnetic or electric fields.
• Chemical compounds can compete for other compounds by forming radicals which attract or expel.
• Biological individual use their body parts to fight each other.
• Ecologically populations fight each other by the competition for resources. The interesting point at this level is that the Visibility Rule comes into play. In some species the competition is exclusively by fighting for resources as they see each other only by the help of the exploitation of these resources. Some other species however evolved special tools that make them visible to competitors. The penicillin that is excreted by fungi to kill bacteria is the best known example. Primates evolved more elaborate tools to fight competitors at the population level.
• Societies can attack each other only by setting people on each other. Modern societies for that purpose evolved special sub societies, element fauceirs that are specialized on attacking other.