Tag: evolutionary personality
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New York City, the best mating place and our prehistoric instincts. Why is it different nowadays?
The world’s most populous cities hold a special place in the hearts of people. Traveling and immigration to other places are our evolutionary adaptations how to spread our selfish genes. When people live at their original places, they find a lack of mating partners, resources, reciprocal altruism, status potential, forming alliances and security (large groups…
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Why is impossible for a lot of people to leave their faith?
The truth that all religions are false is nearly (I always want to leave a certain piece of probability; unlike the vast majority of believers) indisputable. Just for starter: evolution (including that religion is a product of it), karma, soul, prayer, creation, Gods, cycle of life, death, and rebirth, or a single, finite earthly life…
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Absolutely careless and selfish people can make modern society, capitalism and welfare system
Homo sapiens programmed by selfish genes had lived in the African savanna in small family groups (in broader tribes) and tried to gain scarce resources while absolutely careless if another clan (or not to mention a foreign clan) member dies. Careless about the well-being of other people, the animalistic morality we live by these days…
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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…