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Gumby is right here. While it's obviously important to US whether or not we survive, Mother Nature doesn't care whether we live or die. As long as the genes ke
by bilbo0s 8y ago
Gumby is right here. While it's obviously important to US whether or not we survive, Mother Nature doesn't care whether we live or die.
As long as the genes keep propagating, she's good.
I think it's healthy for humans to look to their own survival, but I realize that Mother Nature only cares for the propagation of genes. We should never confuse the one with the other. We should never start to believe that Mother Nature has an interest in our survival more than the survival of some other fish, or alien lifeform far away, or some bacteria, or virus. That could be a fatal mistake for us.
- mar77i 8y agoI see my argument solely as one driven by my own survival instinct. And as it's nature that biases me towards my species, is it wrong to try live up to that and build those spaceships?
- gumby 8y agoThat’s up to you — I also think spaceships are great (and also don’t really see the point of putting humans in them). We’re all just telling you that nature doesn’t prefer you or me to the amoeba, nor vice versa.
- UnFleshedOne 8y agoI would take it further and say that nature doesn't care about genes either. Caring is a property of whole organisms with complex information processing abilities. Genes kinda tend to propagate, just because the ones that were slightly less good at that didn't make it very far.