> "i'll take action to not die" This thought is entirely the result of evolution. Beings that didn't have a survival instinct didn't live to reproduce, so they

> "i'll take action to not die" This thought is entirely the result of evolution. Beings that didn't have a survival instinct didn't live to reproduce, so they don't have descendants that we can observe. There's no guarantee that a survival instinct is a necessary or even desirable element of conscious thought. You're just describing survivorship bias in its most literal form. cue the picture of the shot up airplane