RE: The only reason why organics function is for selfish benefit
February 4, 2014 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2014 at 8:48 pm by x2theone2x.)
(February 4, 2014 at 8:22 pm)Chuck Wrote:(February 3, 2014 at 2:15 pm)x2theone2x Wrote: .....Large amount of letters ....
No. The only reason why organics function is their functions do not kill them directly or indirectly, before they pass on their genes. That's it. There are all sorts of things going on in your body which do not help you. They just happen because they started happening once upon a time and never weeded themselves out by killing your ancesters. How is that for selfish?
"Selfish" is an unwarranted anthropamorphizing of complex, none-goal directed process.
Thank you for your post, it's actually been the best rebuttal so far in my opinion. What your post has given to me is that I have to give the definitions of the terms I'm using in the original post to better convey my point. I would disagree with "your" definition of selfishness though. Everything is to accomplish a goal when it comes to the human function, even if that goal lasts for one second, is discarded, or altered. One major flaw of your argument is " before they have passed on their genes" that makes me assume some major change in reasoning occurs after that point. I don't see that, if that is truly what you were trying to convey.
