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Re: Addiction Is a Brain Disease - Leshner
From: connectutoos@verizon.net (F.H.)
Gary wrote:
On 2010-09-03 15:01:02 -0500, "Charlie M. 1958" <always@impatient.com> said:
Brain relates to the body but does it relate to "I", the ccnscious self?
Or is there some immaterial
"I"? Evolution doesn't require the kind of thinking we do and the kind
of morality we (some) practice.
In fact, evolution tends to be oriented more to the Pictures of Animals">animals than to
humans. Survival and continuation of the gene pool. Things like family
protection, neighborly love, sharing of food, and many more don't meet
the evolutionary critirea which is material in essence.
I'm not so sure those things are not evolutionary. Isn't cooperation and love shack">harmony beneficial to the survival of the species as a while?
Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins say evolution is red and raw. Cooperation is required? I don't see much from the national level to the family level. Some but hardly overwhelming. Evolution is eating your competitor or outsmarting him in terms of survival.
I'd argue that self-preservation, as in dog-eat-dog survival of the fittest, is the most rudimentary stage of evolution. I would think a fully evolved species would recognize that working together for the common good would ultimately be the most beneficial course of action in terms of preserving the species. I think that can be demonstrated in the the behavior of some of the higher-intelligence mammals like apes and dolphins.
That's what Christianity teaches. Not evolution.
Mythology may not be /technically/ evolution but people /do/ kill each other over beliefs and /collective/ beliefs (brought about through struggle) do shape our environment, our culture and hence, our survival.
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