Human morals, human preferences, and human ability to work to satisfy those morals and preferences on large scales, are all quite successful from an evolutionary perspective, and make use of elements seen other places in the animal kingdom. There's no necessity for any sort of outside force guiding human evolution, or any pre-existing thing it's trying to mimic, therefore we shouldn't presume one.
Let me give an analogy for why I think this doesn't remove meaning from things (it will also be helpful if you've read the article Fake Reductionism from the archives). We like to drink water, and think it's wet. Then we learn that water is made of molecules, which are made of atoms, etc, and in fact this idea of "water" is not fundamental within the laws of physics. Does this remove meaning from wetness, and from thirst?
There's no necessity for any sort of outside force guiding human evolution, or any pre-existing thing it's trying to mimic, therefore we shouldn't presume one.
I didn't say anything about an outside force guiding us. I am saying that if the structure of reality has characteristics in which certain moral values produce evolutionary successful outcomes, it follows that these moral values correspond to an objective evolutionary reality.
Does this remove meaning from wetness, and from thirst?
You are talking about meanings referring to what something is. ...
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