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True, but it's good to keep in mind that genes don't have an "agenda" either. They just are the way they are because they survived. It's like having a neighbor

True, but it's good to keep in mind that genes don't have an "agenda" either. They just are the way they are because they survived. It's like having a neighbor who just won $100 million in lottery and thinking, vow, what is his secret? How could he do that? I don't think I could ever do that. How did he do it? The fact is he didn't have much to do with it, it was all pure chance.

lisper 9y ago
Right. That's the same point I was trying to make when I said that genes "care" about reproducing in the same way that water "cares" about flowing downhill. Neither genes nor water really care about anything, they just do what they do because physics.