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Maybe the property of "wanting" is no more than survivorship bias? Since living things survive, they must have a "will" to survive. Maybe that will is just a la
by nuancebydefault 2y ago
Maybe the property of "wanting" is no more than survivorship bias? Since living things survive, they must have a "will" to survive. Maybe that will is just a label that humans invented to attribute to living things?
- crabbone 2y agoWell, wouldn't this bias happen a while ago, to the very primitive organisms? Because the organisms we see today seem to universally want to live. I mean, even if we somehow mislabeled some more fundamental property, on the face of it, it seems to be pretty consistent. Everything about how these organisms are built is indicative of their "will" to remain functional and to procreate. Eg. regrowing parts of organism's body in order to overcome damage (that would cause the organism to cease to exist) seems pretty universal. Similarly, trying to move away from hostile environments seems to be pretty built-in feature of anything alive.
- nuancebydefault 2y agoIndeed it makes sense that very primitive organisms had it and passed it on via DNA or even some other form of chemical code. Still some DNAs were flawed and other had more advanced survival techniques. Still that boils down to: survival has to be a property (or even the definition?) of life. So maybe the question of life introduction is, when did survivorship emerge?