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c.f: the concept of prana; and the belief that you can sustain yourself on sunshine alone
by modzu 8y ago
c.f: the concept of prana; and the belief that you can sustain yourself on sunshine alone
- scotty79 8y agoPeople starved themselves to death believing a version of that.
- modzu 8y agodarwin awards
- dang 8y agoPlease don't do this here.
- newsbinator 8y agoIt seems counterintuitive to believe that a thing you evolved not to do is a thing you can do. It'd be like training yourself to breathe underwater like a fish. Or training yourself to molt like a snake. You're simply not designed with the right hardware for the task, not matter how much "practice" you get. Amazing how people can convince themselves otherwise.
- modzu 8y agoyou didn't evolve "to do" anything. that's teleology.
- newsbinator 8y agoI mentioned things we evolved not to do, which obviously wouldn't fly in a biology paper, but perhaps gets across "things we lack the evolution-provided hardware to do".