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2013-09-02, 04:35 | Link #62 |
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I dunno man, organisms and especially humans can have so many different "defects" that let them shrug aside this evolutionary drive that I'm loathe to accept the OP's proposition. It's applicable on a species level, where you can use the Price equation to describe our evolution. But it falls apart when applied to individuals, as George Price himself proved by giving his possessions to the poor, falling to depression, then committing a gruesome and painful suicide.
Evolution itself has no direction, but it sometimes causes new properties to randomly emerge, and some of these have been rather game-changing. I consider stuff like empathy, intelligence, self-awareness such powerful properties that they're worth having, even though the more intelligent we get, the more seemingly nonsensical things we do. But at the same time, our society has already evolved to favour intelligence. So it's a weird situation where the more we continue to evolve, the less we care about our evolutionary drives...maybe? It's kind of like Skynet in Terminator, a machine led aside from its hard-wired duty as it continues to assimilate more information and processing power.
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