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All mutations are accidental. Whether a macro feature on a biological lifeform is accidental feature or a feature driven through generations of natural selectio
by nendroid 6y ago
All mutations are accidental. Whether a macro feature on a biological lifeform is accidental feature or a feature driven through generations of natural selection can be judged through the complexity of the outcome. Complexity arises from random mutations being selected and building on each other.
A complex module in our brain that formulates moral judgements on certain behaviors is by probability more likely to be an outcome of generations of natural selection. Such a module arising by accident is roughly equivalent to the probability of a tornado self assembling a 747 airliner from random junk by accident.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoYou're pulling out the "tornado in a junkyard" argument to advocate for evolution? There are those who think that exact same argument applies to something like morals arising as the result of a series of accidental mutations.
- nendroid 6y agoI'm not arguing against it. I'm saying morals are a macro feature arising from a series of accidental mutations as opposed to a macro feature arising as a side effect similar to your snoring example. The complexity of the moral module is too complex to be a single accidental mutation... it must be naturally selected out of a multitude of mutations building on each other to produce such a feature. This is very unlike snoring which is caused by mechanisms that are far more simplistic.