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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (502)8/22/2000 2:46:35 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
thereby leaving the brains of future generations programmed to find a purpose.

It was their mortality fears that programmed them (future generations) to find a purpose? Or their solution to those fears?

Well, OK: I can see that you have been careful by using the word "leaving"; So the programming was not enhanced or created by the previous solution, but it was pre-existing...

So if those that find a reason to live reproduce...this will leave a programmed teleology in some subsequent generation? By what mechanism?



To: TigerPaw who wrote (502)8/22/2000 11:15:42 AM
From: pezz  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 28931
 
<<. I think self-aware beings have a purpose. >>

I certainly would like to believe this but it hasn't been proven to my satisfaction.

<<Those who find a reason keep on living and reproduce, thereby leaving the brains of future generations programmed to find a purpose. >>

Well........... those who go on living and reproduce surely leave their genes for future generations.......Maybe they're just afraid to die and that is the legacy left behind.


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