re: #132 Copernic

No, I didn’t say that kindness was not Darwinian. I pointed out that evolution does not judge its creations on the morality of their methods. It’s perfectly true.

Basically, just read my 117.

As social creatures, the forces that drive us towards self interest are no less powerful than the forces that make us cooperative. They are also no less Darwinian. Cooperation is a powerful intra and inter-species selection force that many biologists now argue is crucial to biological evolution. We somehow believe we as humans are beyond biology, when we are strongly fixed within its influences. It is who we are.

Do you believe consciousness is just a passenger, with no actual ability to alter determinism?

Free will just an illusion?