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What makes you think survival instinct has anything to do with intelligence or awareness? If anything, I’d guess that the most primitive life forms on this pla
by mr_toad 9y ago
What makes you think survival instinct has anything to do with intelligence or awareness?
If anything, I’d guess that the most primitive life forms on this planet have the strongest proclivities for survival.
- ModernMech 9y agoI think it has with my conflation of intelligence and life. Life is another one of those things we have trouble defining, but I think you've hinted that one of the key characteristics of life is a desire to extend it. Once we have a thing that seems to value its own self, then we can start talking about motivations for doing so, and I think that's one of the things that can elevate life to intelligence.