RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)
August 4, 2019 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2019 at 9:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Conveniently, evolutionary theory predicts that organisms with reliable sensory systems will dominate the gene pool. While a wide range of imperfect and inaccurate perceptions are possible, and present in living creatures. The knives for edible fruit misperception isn’t going to be well represented.
This relationship can be reversed for knives as edible fruit as a predation strategy. Of exploiting some misperception in prey species.
If we imagine “half an eye” means seeing fruit instead of knives that would be an issue, but that simply isn’t what “half an eye” is for the extant population, and it’s the genes of the extant population that matter.
Now for the fun stuff. From an explicitly evolutionary viewpoint, knives as fruit can be advantageous, if, for example....something about the breeding behavior necessarily involved knives. Seeing s knife would compel the organism to seek out food where breeding was occurring. They found the right thing for the wrong reasons...but, still, there they are, breeding.
It seems convoluted with knives as the unlikely example, but this is the basic value of pleasure in sex, as well.
This relationship can be reversed for knives as edible fruit as a predation strategy. Of exploiting some misperception in prey species.
If we imagine “half an eye” means seeing fruit instead of knives that would be an issue, but that simply isn’t what “half an eye” is for the extant population, and it’s the genes of the extant population that matter.
Now for the fun stuff. From an explicitly evolutionary viewpoint, knives as fruit can be advantageous, if, for example....something about the breeding behavior necessarily involved knives. Seeing s knife would compel the organism to seek out food where breeding was occurring. They found the right thing for the wrong reasons...but, still, there they are, breeding.
It seems convoluted with knives as the unlikely example, but this is the basic value of pleasure in sex, as well.
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