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Is that ideological or biological?

• AlexCoventry 9y ago
  Unless 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 ago
    I 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 ago
    Sex and caring for young directly results in "being fruitful and multiplying".
    • AlexCoventry 9y ago
      But no inbuilt explicit desire for it.