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aberglas comments on Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong Discussion

-13 Post author: aberglas 29 September 2014 08:52AM

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Comment author: aberglas 09 October 2014 08:11:29AM 0 points [-]

It stopped being all, about genes when genes grew brains..

Yes and no. In the sense that memes as well as genes float about then certainly. But we have strong instincts to raise and protect children, and we have brains. There is not particular reason why we should sacrifice ourselves for our children other than those instincts, which are in our genes.