That is applicable to mitotic life, not meotic life. The selfish genes that invented sex also invented the mortal individual -- programmed for death -- as its ultimate evolutionary platform, resulting in the Cambrian Explosion once that platform had been perfected. It is disadvantageous to those selfish genes for you to fear death so much that you gut the viability of your offspring or the offspring of your relatives and even the offspring of your ethny <https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Interests-Ethnicity-Humanity-Migration/dp/1412805961> .
Where "religion" comes into play is when parasitic castration perverts the ordinary self-sacrifice of sexual Being: https://youtu.be/Df_iGe_JSzI I scare-quote "religion" because what Dawkins calls "the moral zeitgeist" has all the attributes of parasitic castration about it. Cui bono On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 9:47 PM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's missing the point. Evolution programmed you to fear death and then > die. We invented religion to cope. > > Any self replicating nanotechnology would evolve the same way. > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 4:37 PM John Rose <johnr...@polyplexic.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, August 17, 2021, at 1:34 PM, magnuswootton81 wrote: >> >> god kills off everyone, he doesnt give a shit. >> >> >> [(Big Banks) + (Big Gov't) + (Big Tech) + (Big Pharma) + (Big Media)] are >> playing God. >> >> but, AGI can be the slingshot that takes down Goliath... unless one of >> them get AGI first then prepare to be culled. Depop agenda assumes killing >> x reduces mean temp by y when x is large. >> >> So.. code faster 😊 >> >> BTW Ivermectin works for me. >> > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tace3f9aea35af378-M305ebe0dfb1394c6f0dd3454> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tace3f9aea35af378-Me3db93427b3591572c0d91d0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
