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As much as I enjoy fictional, armchair partial-cosmology, this evolution-based explanation of every aspect of humans - intelligence, social behaviour etc, is ju
by ajani 10y ago
As much as I enjoy fictional, armchair partial-cosmology, this evolution-based explanation of every aspect of humans - intelligence, social behaviour etc, is just so unimaginative. Couldn't evolution itself evolve to a point where it diverges from the conventional structures held to compose evolution?
Besides, if self evolved as a response to cheating, we must explain cheating outside of the concept of self. Why would you cheat if you are not separate as an individual?
- joshmarlow 10y ago"Couldn't evolution itself evolve to a point where it diverges from the conventional structures held to compose evolution?" In theory, that's what intelligence/civilization is doing isn't it? We're replacing one optimization process (natural selection/mutation/etc) with a new one (forethought/planning/etc). When we talk about genetic engineering, or AI, or anything like that, we're talking about replacing evolution with intelligent design. We're evolution++.