Philosophy Wire: Evolution repeated? Irrationality. Existence.

A new review explores the complexity of evolution's predictability in extraordinary detail. In it, researchers closely examine evidence from a number of empirical studies of evolutionary repeatability and contingency in an effort to fully interrogate ideas about contingency's role in evolution. [1] The eternal question: is everything repeating? Or is everything unique? But the cosmos we live in favors a third option. We see things which are unique. And we see things repeating. So why not accept that both are true? See yourself in the mirror. Every time different. And every time the same. There is no way to put your feet in the same river twice. And yet, you know you are talking about the same river otherwise that sentence would not have any meaning whatsoever. 

Contradictions… Contradictions… Contradictions… 
Let go. And contradictions will go away. 
The river is irrelevant. 
Look down for a moment. 
And you will realize that you had no feet in the first place…

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