[??] "world of duality", digital choice - "Man is Good/Bad - take your pick":
you circumscribe the construction of any Useful question to ask "about the possibilities of the species" -- guaranteeing a priori, a reductio.. after the tiresome Boolean exercise is done. If Beauty is something about seeking the right Questions to ask, what if our Big 'Q'uestions have been all-along entirely too maudlin, pedestrian.. rooted as they so often are: in the Primitive and appealing mostly to the instinctive fight/flight brain.
A story told by the famous piano accompanist, [link|http://www.grainger.de/dbe/sbs/mref009.html| Gerald Moore] re his experience with many Immortals - including the Great Russian basso, Fyodor Chaliapin:
~~We played through the song.
Chaliapin says, "Is.. too.. high."
"Very well", I say and transpose down a half-tone.
We finish and Chaliapin says, "Is.. too.. low.
. . .
Have.. you.. nothing.. in.. between?"
So I played .. .. Both. [think chopsticks].
ie one way to rephrase would consider the possibility of the species - not so much 'evolving' as, simply -- learning to Value the remembering of one's 'Consciousness', while learning to love the Unanswerable Questions about "a One's" origins -- and working at raising that level of Consciousness. Er, fairly often in a day - that is.
(Of course, such an aim might require the cultivation, inculcation even: of a compelling desire for growth in that direction / and quite less-urgent desires for, say: Owning One or Two of Everything imaginable? With leather seats.)
Might not work out. But it's a thought.
Beats: Good/Bad - take your pick ;-)
moi