Trialogues

Hawaii

Part I
MP3 audio file. Playing time 42 mins.
Hawaii Part 1

A private trialogue from Terence’s home on the Big Island of Hawaii, 1994.
Chapter 3 of The Evolutionary Mind.
The Hawaiian Islands and what they can teach us about evolution.
The arrival and evolution of different forms of life on Hawaii. The creation of isolated ecosystems on Hawaii by lava flows. Hawaii as a microcosm of the Earth – the Earth as an island. Can island dispersal patterns help model how life evolves in the galaxy? Comparing the evolutionary processes of different island ecosystems. The Wallace Line. Butterfly diversity and how variety itself confers evolutionary advantage. Speciation on island groups and in the Amazon. The role of creative adaptation and morphic resonance in evolution. The evolution and development of whole ecosystems. The Amazon rainforest.

Part 2
MP3 audio file. Playing time 42 mins.
Hawaii Part 2

A private trialogue from Terence’s home on the Big Island of Hawaii, 1994. Chapter 3 of The Evolutionary Mind.
The creation of the Hawaiian Islands’ ecosystem.
The arrival of life at Hawaii – spores, the duck’s foot hypothesis and the teleportation theory.
Interplanetary biological dispersal and the idea of a resonance phenomenon driving evolution.
Evolutionary puzzles – macromutation, the metamorphosis of beetles and butterflies.
What causes changes in the migratory habits of birds?
How did people first find Hawaii? Human migration patterns.
Interspecies communication flows and shamanism.
The imitation of nature in future technology.
Chanting and the Harmonic Convergence.
The Web as an analogue for nature.
Globalisation versus evolutionary creativity and cultural diversification.
Hawaii as a creative cultural interface between east and west.
Pearl Harbour. Hawaii as a channel for linking us with the stars.

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