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It did take us a long time to get here though. Luckily things build on each other and we're good at patterns.

• dm2 13y ago
  A relatively long time compared to our day to day lives. Is it possible for other organisms to perceive time differently than we do or is time pretty much fixed? Also, I'd be willing to bet that our sex drive had a decent role in evolution. Basically be strong, smart, and acquire stuff so we can put our dicks into pretty females.
  • pasquinelli 13y ago
    oh, interesting. so women have no sex drive? their evolutionary imperative is to be pretty and get dicks stuck in them? fascinating. tell me more.
  • jessaustin 13y ago
    I think "pasquinelli" makes a good point about how male-normative this comment is, but also I think "pasquinelli" might be hell-banned.
    • PavlovsCat 13y ago
      It's also underestimating ideas: we don't just shape the world around us by having kids, to put it mildly. The most influential people of history may or may not have had kids; for the most part we don't know because it hardly matters to us. I also think it's putting the horse before the cart. To some degree we don't even shape the world to have kids, we also have kids to shape the world. That is, for them to live, because we like to live. Life likes to live; it also likes to see other life thrive. That with similar genes preferably, sure, but also simply life in general. Plus, from the perspective of genes, it makes zero difference if "my" genes or similar ones that "belong" to someone else are replicated, completely contrary to how we feel about that.... which to me is another indication that this view of life being this endless and futile struggle (harshly put, like a malignant cancer trapped in a finite universe), is more to do with cultural pathology or delusion than life itself.
  • coldtea 13y ago
    Careful, you'll unleash the PC monster...
  • chm 13y ago
    It seems you haven't read Mr. Dawkins yet. Start with "The Selfish Gene", his best IMO. Have fun!