Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1923

Pencilings in the margin of page 56, Alfred Taylor, “Organiza­tion and Mind in Evolution,” Main Currents in Modern Thought, Vol.17, No.3, January-February 1961, pp.55-58.

 

 

 

 

 

Taylor: “Another important aspect of nature is the difference in time values at various levels of organization.”

       (Emphasis by Heath)

 

 

Duration of the organized unit. Quantum, atom, molecule, cell, animal man, interfunctioning men — the organic, non-political society. For the same kind of units, their duration is the measure of their reality.

 

 

 

Taylor: “In human experience, then, organization is the product of intelligence, so if we are to harmonize our theories with verifiable knowledge then we may assume that organization in nature is also the product of intelligence, and that the course of evolution, which consists in the development of progressive order in structure and actions, is a reflection of something in the category of mind.” (Emphases by Heath)

 

 

Organization is intelligence and vice versa.