RE: evolution
March 12, 2022 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2022 at 5:02 pm by Disagreeable.)
(March 10, 2022 at 7:06 am)Jehanne Wrote:(March 10, 2022 at 4:28 am)The L Wrote: Consciousness doesn't need a purpose. It's a by-product of other things with a purpose. As is often the case in evolution.
Consciousness also aides with survival and the passing of one's genes, except when it comes to nuclear weapons and catastrophic climate change.
I don't think it does. We could act as if we were conscious without being conscious. Consciousness itself doesn't seem to add anything useful.
Hence why I think it's a by-product.
I'm talking about human consciousness.
Consciousness itself, of any form, runs a lot deeper. Alongside evolution rather than subsequent to it, IMO.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure