06 Jan '06 22:03>
Originally posted by FreakyKBHPoint one; natural selection only selects the best adapted organisms (to the environment in which they exist) - it does not promote changes, except at the population level.
[b]The preception of love, fear, anger etc are all the experiences that your teaching thebrain. You're also teaching it logic as a child. If the brain learns that when things are bad go crazy, then that's just what it'll do as an adult. You get out what you put in - like any computer program.
For the purpose of what, exactly? Natural selection use ...[text shortened]... ism, yet man has constructed an entirely artificial system to which only he must adapt. Why?[/b]
Point two; the brain is an adaptation to the universe in which humanity operates. if we have created society etc then we have done what other organisms (chimpanzees for example) have also done, only to a more advanced degree.
Sorry Freaky, I didn't fully understand your second point, perhaps you could clarify?