Pilchard
Posts: 40
Joined: May 2010
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Someone at UD not taking straw man pot-shots when given the chance:
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-360355
| Quote | Even if the selfish gene theory was valid, this would not imply that evolved intelligence could not also have evolved an independent mechanism of internal self awareness and complexity that allows choice at a higher level sometimes against evolutionary imperatives. In other words, self awareness would have evolved to respond to the environment in order to survive, and this inevitably enabled the capability to make choices which go against survival. Like the Holocaust rescuers.
Whether or not there are no ultimate metaphysical/ spiritual/moral good and evil, humans obviously desire one thing or another based on other factors such as desire for pleasure and fear of pain. At a minimum, no other motivations are really required (though they may exist). |
I've only been wasting time stalking UD for a few months, but this is a pretty rare occurrence, right? I'm excited. It's like I've found a four leaf clover. He even used the word "obvious" where it actually applies.
Obviously after this it returns to damning the materialists for not ceasing all activity and embracing perfect stillness as their nihilistic meaningless universe tells them to.
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