(October 31, 2017 at 3:49 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:(October 31, 2017 at 3:32 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Because organisms that don't survive...don't survive.
I meant to say that even on surface evolution is creepy. Mechanical and mindless evolution created hardwiring for survival at first and then people who wish to live eternally.
It's not so much hard-wiring as the way things get sorted and culled from one generation to another. Things that aren't particularly good at surviving will generally die off, leaving predominantly things that are good at surviving.
The desire to survive isn't directly attributable to evolution; it's more the result of sentience and self-awareness (and particularly the result of realizing that death exists).
