(July 29, 2021 at 2:31 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(July 29, 2021 at 2:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The impala doesn’t want or not want anything. Its behaviour is the end result of thousands and thousands of generations of evolution. An impala can’t help running from a cheetah any more than a cheetah can help chasing an impala. Choice and desire don’t enter into these things.
Boru
Avoiding death is pretty much the same goal of all life.
Nope - there are several critters whose goal is to mate...then they die, die soon after, or are killed by the mate.
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