TGGP2 comments on The Gift We Give To Tomorrow - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TGGP2 18 July 2008 07:40:00AM 1 point [-]

I was once impressed by the ability of natural selection to create incredibly complicated functioning living things that can even repair and make copies of themselves. I realized that this was the result of it having so much time and material to work with and relentlessly following an algorithm for attaining fitness that a human being with its biases would be apt to deviate from if consciously pursuing it, but I still felt impressed. I have never felt that way about beauty or emotion.