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Maybe humans are some of the only animals smart enough to put other things above survival. Is spending eternity in the cramped room of Paleolithic life satisfy
by shrimp_emoji 6y ago
Maybe humans are some of the only animals smart enough to put other things above survival.
Is spending eternity in the cramped room of Paleolithic life satisfying? (And by "eternity" I guess I mean the remaining lifetime of the Sun or biosphere[0].)
To me, it's not. I'd rather sacrifice my basic survival and that of the whole species for something greater. (Especially since "survival" is a zero-sum, doomed goal in the long-run anyway.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbbwrfp9toE&feature=youtu.be&t=45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbbwrfp9toE&feature=youtu.be... unironically. xD
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Future_of_the_Earth,_the_Solar_System_and_the_universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Fut...
- zkmon 6y agoSatisfaction and happiness were wrong goals! Producing mutations that can fit better was the only goal. After pursuing the wrong goals, you can't prove whether today's life is more satisfying or happier than paleolithic life. By evolution standards, the humans are weaker now (due to dependencies on many things) than ever.
- varjag 6y agoEvolution has no standards.
- zkmon 6y agoyou know what I meant. Biologically, human got less capable, less fit into the ecosystem and less tolerable for changes. That's how evolution measures the progress of a species.
- varjag 6y agoWhat I mean is you are attributing virtue to an emergent process. Evolution doesn't care, and survival in primordial forest is not any more "important" metric than existence elsewhere, elsehow. Either way the human species are perhaps the most successful in fitness and survival of all thus far.