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The only reason why organics function is for selfish benefit
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RE: The only reason why organics function is for selfish benefit
(February 6, 2014 at 2:58 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(February 4, 2014 at 8:43 pm)x2theone2x Wrote: 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.


I disagree with your characterization "Everything is to accomplish a goal when it comes to the human function".

In fact absolutely nothing is to accomplish a goal when it comes to the human function. Every function arose by chance and remains until it is weeded out. All your functions are just chances that has not yet had the chance to be weeded out.

Selfishness is a distinctly goal related concept. Goal is an abstract human psychological concept. It is widely misused to mentally model non-goal directed process not because it is a good analogy, but because most people are equipped to deal with this analogy.

People feel better about being able to do a job if they feel can use a familiar tool to do the job. Once they are swinging a familiar tool are easily pursuaded to accept whatever the tool produced as being equivalent to the job being done, even if the tool is totally inappropirate and incapable of really doing the original job for which they picked up the tool.

Human Buffer systems and Human Compensation systems work to balance anions, cations, Ph, and other aspects of the Human body. These systems are factual functions and can only work when given the opportunity to, this "tool" won't work in any other case. I do agree that everything arose by "chance" otherwise probability, that doesn't mean when it's brought into fruition it doesn't have a function. It could lose its function, adapt, dismiss, etc. The lack of function may even be function by proxy.

I already dissected the rest of what you said.
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RE: The only reason why organics function is for selfish benefit - by x2theone2x - February 6, 2014 at 3:36 pm

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