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

To: Solon who wrote (3064)	11/1/2000 11:37:40 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

It is in our interest to keep the genome large as possible WHY?? Who is our? Why would it be in your interest? I am going to die within 30 years. Why is it in my interest? Just wondering. Did you "moo" the cows again today?! :) (no wonder you get flats!)

To: Solon who wrote (3064)	11/2/2000 1:01:54 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I think we are hardwired for it. Compassion is the first thing you deal out when you get stressed. Triage is another meme-like program that we use. Depending upon the stressors I think the game-strategy changes. I hate to burst anyone's bubble but I'd argue that at our core, we are simply hardcoded and software programmed game-theory instances. We all play the game by choosing what we eat, how we live, what we do, where we play, who we date, how many kids we have, etc. All of this amounts to a self-aware organism that entertains itself by consideration of its gaming strategy. The very notion that we consider the game theory affects the rule set we apply. I think dreaming may be the renormalization of brain potentials. All of the gaming during the day amounts to training. We don't want to become over trained so I think some of our games are drained away to a baseline by the dream process. It may take the gain terms away on certain pathways or reinforce others. My belief is that physical processes, like so many cattle wandering the iso lines on a hill, wear paths. This is efficient for us, and those who follow. It becomes self-reinforcing. That is what is the lifeforce, IMO.