Tag: evolution
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Do your friends believe in the Poltergeists? 10 reasons why they shouldn’t
1. We are products of evolution (replicating animals) 2. There is no higher power or God 3. There is no reason why other non-animal (including humans as animals) creatures would exist (who would have created them or how would they have come into existence?) 4. We are evolutionarily programmed to fear 5. We possess the…
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Wikipedia – Instead of promoting rationality, they tell you how many people died somewhere
Who would think that Wikipedia which should promote scientific discourse, free inquiry, and rationality is living in obscurantism? People are evolutionary programmed that if you kill a child that is a problem (and, of course, it should be). And since the means of contraception didn’t exist nearly all the time people were in existence, when…
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Elon Musk, evolutionary psychology and why we are obsessed with famous people?
As I have found this topic untouched by evolutionary psychology (please correct me if I am wrong), I will offer my amateurish view. People love to stock and read hundreds of books about famous people. They want to be just like them, want to be close to them and gain their attention. The hunger-gathering groups…
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Who brought more people alive? Capitalists or communists?
It isn’t actually a joke. In fact, I am neither a communist nor a socialist. But the Czechoslovakian regime had higher natality than nowadays Czech Republic regime. My favorable regime is definitely non-communistic. There are some kinds of academic, press, and civic freedoms. You can read Karl Popper, Bertrand Rusell, and so on, the thing…
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You fail in business and you will feel it. Doctors can basically kill people without punishment
When you fail in a private sphere (especially in business) you will feel the dire consequences immediately. The commercial sphere is tough. But excluding all the wars the doctors kill more people than homicide do. An earlier study conducted in 2009 found that an estimated 200,000 people die from medical malpractice annually in the US.…
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The silent Holocaust – factory farming and torture
Of course, the animals have never been born if we weren’t bred them. But what kind of life do they have? Only suffering and suffering. I have seen thousands of videos of animals having been tortured. The issue is not only sporadic but it is overwhelmingly systematic. Who can work in the factory farming industry?…
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People do things because of money or direct orders
Humans don’t do things basically because of morality but because of gaining scarce resources or being in a submissive relationship. So you have cruel correction officers, the Holocaust, genocides, armies ready to do whatever they are ordered to do. Evolution equipped us with selfishness, not caring (in terms of doing direct intervention) whether a fellow…
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Creationism
Evolution is not just a theory, it is also a fact as well. When Charles Darwin published his book “The Origin of Species” there were only fossils and their similarity to other fossils and current animals (and mutual geographic proximity). With precise dating of fossils, we now know the T-Rex fossils were founded in some…
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Even if we had free will
As you may know, I don’t believe in anything as free will. The brain is either deterministic or inter-deterministic and this leaves no place for free will. Every neuron impulse is determined by the previous one. For example, when you choose what ice cream to buy, it may by decision of hundred of neurons you…