My Philosophy of Biology: BioRelativity
My premise for relativity in biology fundamentally comes down to believing that relativity has much more to do with metaphysics and philosophy of science than physics in particular. I hope that you will take a look at what I have written and find my conclusions (if not the arguments themselves) intriguing and, I daresay, useful.
And now a painfully short outline of my already short papers:
Relativity in Evolutionary Biology
This paper outlines a parallel between physics and biology that has to do with change. Change in location (motion) in physics, so long as it is a regular change, is subject to the principle of relativity. The evolution of a species, i.e. how that species is changing over time, is similarly relative as long as the species is undergoing a regular change. Hopefully more prosaically: the trajectory of a species (how it changes in morphology over time) is similar to the trajectory of an object (how it changes in location over time) in that both trajectories are relativistic.
Special Relativity in Evolutionary Biology
Special Relativity occurs in physics because of the absolute upper limit imposed by the speed of light. This paper argues that there is a likewise upper limit on the rate that evolution may occur based upon the speed at which an organism can reproduce.
Consequences of Relativity in Evolutionary Biology
Some results of the previous two papers are listed here. Notably fitness and its relation to organisms, species, and ecosystems can be non-trivially defined *without using the concept of design* and the problem of evolutionary drift can be defused.
General Relativity in Evolutionary Biology
An expansion of relativity to all aspects of evolutionary change is argued for here by postulating a natural selection field which can act as a force upon a species or organism. This allows for us to connect the idea of struggle for survival to natural selection in a non ad hoc way.
This paper expands upon the method of measuring fitness introduced in ‘Consequences’ by using the more developed theory from ‘General Relativity’.
Evolution and Racial Superiority
An argument by induction that it is scientifically impossible to prove one race to be superior to another. The theory of Biological Relativity is what permits such a strong conclusion.
The Logic of Biological Relativity
I outline the underlying logical basis for both relativity and biorelativity in the following two posts. Notice that relativity inherently cannot be entirely described by ordinary first order logic because of the unique way that the perspective of the observer must be included.
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