3 ms·
This is not a direct critique (i.e. I am not saying that you're wrong), but this line of thinking is rather unpopular these days, and possibly with good reason:
by gitanovic 5y ago
This is not a direct critique (i.e. I am not saying that you're wrong), but this line of thinking is rather unpopular these days, and possibly with good reason: it can easily conflate into eugenetics and many of the problems we already faced in 20th century.
Unfortunately social dynamics are a complexity layer on top of the already complicated layer of nature itself. We all are after-all moist machines with a brain (and these 2 things have very complex and convoluted feed-back loops)
The last line is actually wrong in my opinion, we did outsmart nature in many senses: we can fly, go underwater, stop bacterial infections that would have killed us, became de-facto apex predators, despite we are rather weak animals... therefore depending on how you keep the score, I'd say that we are actually winning against nature.