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Well, this evolutionary assumption is a heuristic, to be constantly verified and doubted by the mind. You can have an abusive family, and you need to escape it
by atemerev 2y ago
Well, this evolutionary assumption is a heuristic, to be constantly verified and doubted by the mind. You can have an abusive family, and you need to escape it the same way you would escape any other abuser. You can have a brilliant human being belonging to another race or nation, and you need to evaluate them according to their brilliance, not prejudices.
As of free will — our own free will emerges from a very physical combination of electric impulses and chemical gradients. This means it might also emerge from other material representations, and perhaps better than ours.