Yes true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ADgh3yCSdM
I suppose the big problem that a
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Darwinist places as I said before is to
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explain empathy naturally altruism which
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seems to go to run counter to our
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Darwinian programming and it really does
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seem as though we subjectively feel
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empathy in a way that that naive
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interpretation of Darwinism would think
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that we shouldn't I mean we're we're too
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nice for for Darwinian tastes would be
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one way to put it I think it said it
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will it will be a challenge but it is a
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challenge to Darwinian stew explain why
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we are so nice because starting out from
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the assumption that our ancestors would
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have been programmed if you like or not
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if you don't to be nice towards relative
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and towards reciprocate errs how come
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when are nice to everybody and I think
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that that's not that difficult to
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explain because what natural selection
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does is to put into brains rules of
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thumb it doesn't say look after the
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interests of your selfish genes in a
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cognitive way if it did then we'd all be
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a lot nastier than than we are what
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natural selection does is put into
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brains rules of thumb which might be of
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the form be nice to any small squawking
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objects in your nest if you happen to be
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a bird now in a human case we used to
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live in small bands small villages where
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most of the people that you met as all
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the people you ever met would be
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relatives and would be people you meet
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again and again and therefore it would
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be in a position to reciprocate so the
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rule of thumb would have been be nice to
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everyone you meet
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now that's translated into today where
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we're cultural beings where we live in
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large cities we're no longer living in
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small villages or small bands it's no
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longer true that everybody you meet is a
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relative or a potential reciprocate er
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but the rule of thumb doesn't know that
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why should it just as the rule of thumb
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be lustful towards members of the
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opposite sex works because in nature
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back then there was no contraception now
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there is contraception and so the the
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rule of thumb just plain be lustful
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doesn't work anymore but it's still
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there we still feel the lust in the same
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way we still feel the lust to be nice
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because that's what natural selection
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built into us at a time when being nice
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meant being nice to everybody who meant
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if everybody would ever meet now
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nowadays we live in big cities but the
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rule of thumb is still there that's a
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very very simplified account but that's
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the kind of way in which a Darwinian
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might argue for why we're as nice as we
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are we certainly much do to nice in a
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naive sense
This a poor way to get information to you.
I will not do it often and might have to ignore some of your posts till you can view links.
Regards
DL