Evolution: Unalienable Rights, trumps, "survival of the fittest"

Thank you Con for the overview on “survival of the fittest.”The Life of the scientific community, has the freedom (“Liberty”) in research, via the scientific method during its evolutional process, in the pursuit of the objective to better understand the Laws of Nature, and once accomplished, there is positive-feedback for the world (aka “Happiness”). For example, as Einstein did at the beginning of last century, gave the scientific community a better understanding by claiming Newtonian physics was incomplete and needed refinement. Hence, positive-feedback for the world in solar cells, GPS, iPhones, etc. In general, improving the standard of living throughout the world (aka “Happiness”). The Laws of Nature are fixed, however, humanity's evolution in understanding these Laws is Conservative by building on the knowledge from the scientists of the past, advancing the state of understanding, by the scientists of the present and those of the future. The knowledge from the scientists of the past (Darwin, Spencer), is being refined by the scientists of the present (Bejan, Takac) giving the world a better understanding of evolution. The findings of the present concludes, Jefferson's logic is more complete than Spencer's. Treating “Happiness” as a metaphor for “positive-feedback,” Jefferson's logic of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” includes Spencer’s logic of “survival of the fittest” and adds a refined level of understanding to both the Natural Selection Process, and evolution in life, science, technology, social systems, markets, etc. Con mentioned “Evolution by definition is the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of earth.” In part that is true, but the definition of evolution covers a greater scope (http://dictionary.reference.com...), where Jefferson's Unalienable Rights covers them all. Let's take a “living organism” for example. According Alexei Kurakin’s research (http://www.tbiomed.com...): “...all proteins, and, consequently, the macromolecular organizations they form, remain flexible and open to adaptation, “learning,” and evolution. As a consequence, having found itself in the situations or environments encountered frequently during the course of evolution, the cell “recognizes” a “familiar” situation by virtue of rapid self-organization of its proteins into those macromolecular complexes, compartments, and structures that proved to be useful for survival or prosperity in similar situations in the past.”In terms of the cell's Unalienable Rights, Kurakin’s observations suggest that once the cell attains Life, it also attains Liberty (it is “flexible and open to adaptation”) and uses “self-organization” to pursue the equivalent of Happiness (“survival or prosperity”).In regards to “Natural Selection,” Con's discussion covered the eating habits of some bird and the faith of those “green beetles,” concluding with “lucky that we are at the top of the food chain...” The world is one big restaurant. We humans are free to dine in a universe where we too could be the next meal from the appetite of viruses, parasites, cancer, and occasionally from lions, tigers, bears, etc.—bon appetite! We humans are also part of nature and we embrace the “Natural Selection” process by breeding stocks of cattle, selective harvesting of crops, our choice of a mate, etc. Too bad Con did not see Pro's United States example, of implementing Jefferson's Unalienable Rights in our Constitution, changed the world's standard of living via innovation within a short period of 200-years, like no other society in recorded history. Instead, Con perceived “survival of the happiest” as mutating to a couch potato. Couch potato perhaps, in a social system that encourages being on the dole at the expense of others. However, in general, taking a closer look at life's Unalienable Rights of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of positive-feedback,” at the human level, the desire for more freedom (“Liberty”), in a civil society, in a large part, is a function of money. That is, the more money one has, the more freedom they have to do and buy things. Also, money gives one more freedom of movement to live in more places, a nicer neighborhood for example, in the pursuit of one's Happiness. How does one get money? You have to work for it. On the other hand, there are those rare cases of being born into wealth or lucky in a lottery. We may view life's Unalienable Rights as a primeval bio-program throughout all living-systems, including social systems. That is, once alive, or a social entity comes into existence, there is a natural tendency during the struggle of survival to support, prolong, and improve “Life.” At the same time, there is an inherent drive to increase freedom (“Liberty”), with an ongoing effort to reduce and optimize the energy expended during “the pursuit of” an objective, while increasing and exploring new levels of positive-feedback (“Happiness” for us humans). A bio-program, having an organically persuasive, self-adjusting, fine-tuning algorithm throughout the flux of life's Unalienable Rights; encouraging life to take the path of least resistance, in the attempt to satisfy the pursuit of its objectives, to maintain survival, or search for new levels of positive-feedback. Life's Unalienable Rights refines and enhances our understanding of evolution and the Natural Selection Process compared to the narrow scope of “survival of the fittest.” Let's look at the evolution of a social-system. When two or more humans form a group, the group becomes alive as a separate entity with its own Unalienable Rights. The pursuit of group Happiness through goodwill and kindness leads to a mutual moral respect for the Unalienable Rights of all the members within the group. Goodwill is a conservative force that promotes order, stability, and harmony through the pursuit of group-wide positive feedback. Over time, group-wide positive feedback is the genesis of traditions, values, beliefs, language, etc., the norms of society. These norms are tried and tested, and conservatively pass down from one generation to the next establishing its culture. A moral order guides an individual in the prudent exercise of judgment relative to those norms. The individual in a civil society strives, albeit imperfectly, to be virtuous; that is, restrained, ethical, and honorable, respecting and embracing the Unalienable Rights of others relative to those tested norms.Morality, an outgrowth of life's Unalienable Rights, is the thread that runs through the tapestry of a civil society. Empirically, throughout recorded history all isolated human tribes developed their own culture, language, beliefs, etc., the evolution of social-systems via Unalienable Rights. In modern times, secularism is on the rise where the traditional view of morality rest with religious organizations or at the home. On the other hand, educational systems are becoming schizophrenic about morality and who is responsible for its teachings. Morality is like a force that holds a society together. If a society does not have a good understanding of this moral force, it could fall apart. How long could a society function or achieve Happiness without morality? As morality declines throughout a society, more complicated laws emerge to keep the peace, institutional public surveillance becomes commonplace, an increase in armed law-enforcement is noticeable, and more convoluted regulations appear to circumvent economic corruption. Complicated laws morph into plundering dictates, while regulations kill economic freedom. In addition, the leaders of a social institution (the government) controlling such a society are also part of this population having similar moral standing. If the government controls education, then the moral decline may result in tyranny. John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” (http://www.john-adams-heritage.com...). Today the US is in a post-constitutional soft tyranny era. For example, my Friend Con probably did something “illegal” today. If the government wants to incarcerate Con, or spoil her day, or freeze her bank accounts, etc., they could because there are so many laws on the books, on the average we commit 3 felonies a day. http://www.amazon.com...http://blogs.loc.gov...Funny how many in the US, think they live in a free country. The price a nation pays for lack of moral education, for lack of understanding life's Unalienable Rights, for lack of understanding evolution in social-systems.Morality, which is an outgrowth of life's Unalienable Rights, which is an outgrowth of the Constructal Law, which is an outgrowth of the Second Law of Thermodynamics; and this being the traceability path to the physical Laws of Nature. And in saying that, all science classes throughout our educational system should also include the study of morality being a force in nature, and when properly understood, advances the evolution of a civil society; otherwise, the cycle of tyranny takes hold.