RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 6, 2019 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2019 at 11:10 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(September 6, 2019 at 10:46 am)Grandizer Wrote: Heard of kin selection?
Of course, that's why I'm saying the continuity of it doesn't make sense. You have to enter an abstract realm where, say, sequence ATT is considered "my gene" regardless of where and why in the universe it appears. Otherwise there's no continuity between my genes and my sister surviving; they may as well be competing against each other.
My clone isn't me, in other words, and for all I know he may be trying to kill me, or take my girlfriend.
Which isn't far fetched either. I think there are bacteria that produce toxins against members of their own kind, a genetic free for all.
My guess is that kin selection, or just a general preference for the survival of kin even, has some better explanation than the evolutionary genetic narrative.