(February 6, 2014 at 3:36 pm)x2theone2x Wrote:(February 6, 2014 at 2:58 pm)Chuck Wrote: 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.
Function requires a design. What everything in human has is is not function, for none of them are deseigned. They have properties which facilitates their interact in an undesigned system that involves much more than the human itself, but everything with which parts of the human can interact. They are no more selfish then a oxygen atom is selfish when combining with two hydrogen atoms to form water.
You are confusing outcome with intention.
