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I don't know, why do people try to propagate their genes? I'm sure you've got a better handle on the situation the the force of billions of years of evolutiona

I don't know, why do people try to propagate their genes? I'm sure you've got a better handle on the situation the the force of billions of years of evolutionary history.

knorker 6y ago
Sure. I'm saying I don't understand how the rational part of their brain isn't overruling that, though. The best thing you can do for evolutionary things is to donate all the sperm and eggs that you can. Literally do that as often as you can. I understand why people don't, though, because humans and animals only instinctively connect their will with procreation, even if it's connected, and instinct doesn't do abstraction. It only does connections with what's worked before. Wide hips, health, liking sex, etc... that's what we've evolved to. But who knows, the few mutated humans who give to sperm banks nonstop may become the majority in a thousand generations, and wanting sex may be a trait that'll be phased out. I want to stay home and eat candy all day, but I don't. There are many things humans don't do that the "reptilian brain" would have them do nonstop. I don't want to pay into my pension, and realistically my survival post-65 in the west isn't going to affect how my genes live on. Yet I do pay into my pension. On the scale of human civilization so far, especially after the pill came around, procreation is not that connected to nature. Same as our other pleasures. What's tasty to eat is largely bad for you. Evolution hasn't adjusted to that. And it probably never will, since we'll invent just-as-tasty-but-healthy before it'll adjust. And we've learned to trigger dopamine rewards without good behavior too. It's just illegal to consume such chemicals. Also evolution doesn't demand wanting to procreate. It just demands wanting something that has the effect of procreating (historically), i.e. sex. Your question is more on point than the other guy who just wanted to call me a nazi. So thanks for that. :-)

I don't know, why do people try to propagate their genes? I'm sure you've got a better handle on the situation the the force of billions of years of evolutionary history.

knorker 6y ago

Sure. I'm saying I don't understand how the rational part of their brain isn't overruling that, though. The best thing you can do for evolutionary things is to donate all the sperm and eggs that you can. Literally do that as often as you can. I understand why people don't, though, because humans and animals only instinctively connect their will with procreation, even if it's connected, and instinct doesn't do abstraction. It only does connections with what's worked before. Wide hips, health, liking sex, etc... that's what we've evolved to. But who knows, the few mutated humans who give to sperm banks nonstop may become the majority in a thousand generations, and wanting sex may be a trait that'll be phased out. I want to stay home and eat candy all day, but I don't. There are many things humans don't do that the "reptilian brain" would have them do nonstop. I don't want to pay into my pension, and realistically my survival post-65 in the west isn't going to affect how my genes live on. Yet I do pay into my pension. On the scale of human civilization so far, especially after the pill came around, procreation is not that connected to nature. Same as our other pleasures. What's tasty to eat is largely bad for you. Evolution hasn't adjusted to that. And it probably never will, since we'll invent just-as-tasty-but-healthy before it'll adjust. And we've learned to trigger dopamine rewards without good behavior too. It's just illegal to consume such chemicals. Also evolution doesn't demand wanting to procreate. It just demands wanting something that has the effect of procreating (historically), i.e. sex. Your question is more on point than the other guy who just wanted to call me a nazi. So thanks for that. :-)