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How does this ideological drive improve your welfare or happiness?
by AlexCoventry 9y ago
How does this ideological drive improve your welfare or happiness?
- shiven 9y agoNot an ideological drive, i.e. not driven primarily by ideology. Driven more by a primitive will for my physicality to survive beyond my physical lifetime.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoSo mostly an attempt to address the fear of death?
- shiven 9y agoNot fear. Just the certainity of death.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoHow does persistence of DNA address death?
- shiven 9y agoDNA = A blueprint for something that makes me unique, and the only known way to travel through time, into the future — in the most sentient form I know of — as a ”not me, but still me” human.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoThere is nothing sentient about DNA.
- gozur88 9y agoIs that ideological or biological?
- AlexCoventry 9y agoUnless you think concepts like "genome" and "propagation" are somehow encoded in our DNA, it's ideological. There are clear biological drives to sex and caring for young, but I don't see evidence for a direct biological drive for being fruitful and multiplying.
- tinymollusk 9y agoI suspect, like many human things, it's an underlying biological drive interpreted by our lawyer-as-narrator, the consciousness. I'm thinking of the "elephant and the rider" metaphor -- the elephant has drives for sex and care of young, the rider on the top rationalizes it. The elephant turns left and goes into a river. After they're headed for the river, the rider thinks, "I'm hot, I should go to the river."
- dwaltrip 9y agoSex and caring for young directly results in "being fruitful and multiplying".
- AlexCoventry 9y agoBut no inbuilt explicit desire for it.