Religion
In reply to the discussion: Do primates practice religion? [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)I enjoy Dawkins generally, I think he's brilliant, that's why I obsess on him. The Selfish Gene is one of the greatest turn on's to biology I've ever read, I recommend it for any one. I couldn't get in to The Extended Phenotype as much, (too specific) and I felt Climbing Mount Improbable was pounding in arguments that he made more gracefully in The Selfish Gene IMHO about why evolution is valid.
What I'm talking about is the very, very hard point where a descriptive science like biology starts to describe humans, and identify optimal states of being, and how that gets entangled with ethics. What do we do if biology shows us that humans who don't know biology fare better biologically? (silly example, but gets the point across) To me that's such a fascinating question, its REALLY central to the information age. What information is good for us to know? How can it be derived through evolutionary processes or the rest? What do we do if the information that's good for us to know isn't literally true?
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