Transcending biological and social reductionism (Phase space)

The sociological reductionism of poststructuralist analysis has been refute d by biological science--human beings have a nature that evolved. But bioge netic reductionism leaves out as many awkward facts as psychosocial reducti onism does. Close reading of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse indicates a n answer to the fundamental question at issue. How did meaning, freedom and value evolve in a physical universe? New understandings of the evolution o f time, and chaos-theoretical concepts of emergent self-organization and st range attractors, suggest a redefinition of "survival," the key concept of evolution, which allows plenty of room for freedom, meaning, and value.