Authors
Kirby, Joseph MorrillAffiliation
Institute for Christian StudiesIssue Date
2013Keywords
ComplexificationTechnology
Life
Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998
Expansion
Evolution
Taylor, Charles
Dooyeweerd, H. (Herman), 1894-1977
Ground motive
Technology
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There are two senses by which technology can be seen as a new layer of living complexity: first, while biological systems can only appropriate 24 of the 91 natural elements into their metabolic processes, technological systems can imbue complex form into all 91 elements; second, this added capacity gives life the potential to expand across its current limit – the atmosphere of the Earth – in the same way as it expanded from the oceans to the land some five hundred million years ago. This essay explores what such an understanding of life and technology might mean to us, humanity, in the context of our current ecological and social catastrophe.Citation
Kirby, Joseph Morrill. "The Spiritual Meaning of Technological Evolution to Life," Cosmos and History: the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 9 (2013): 179-220, accessed October 23, 2013, http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/291Publisher
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http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/291http://www.academia.edu/3983603/The_Spiritual_Meaning_of_Technological_Evolution_to_Life
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