—Frederick NietzscheThe tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
I was interested in your remark to Madfool about how clinical paranoia — Jack Cummins
No. Biology (i.e. evolution) doesn't have a "purpose". Certainly "thinking & philosophy" are not "part of the survival process" given that modern homo sapiens have been around for two hundred or so millennia before anything like "thinking" or "philosophy" were acculturated.Could the purpose of biology itself be the evolution of consciousness? — Jack Cummins
No. Biology (i.e. evolution) doesn't have a "purpose". — 180 Proof
The same way I can't no there are no flying elephants either, huh? — 180 Proof
We are natural creatures. Nature lacks meaning. This natural lack we (mis)attribute to our nature as a basic need to find / make meaning. We, thereby, tend to confabulate either a self-positing (optimistic) or a self-negating (pessimistic) X-of-the-gaps stance. An absurdist stance, however, defiantly rejects both of these evasions from "giving all to the present" (Camus) by committing daily e.g. to creative pursuits & natural beauty or to solidarity struggles (or to both). Amor fati, Jack!It is a complex area, involving the question about our basic nature and our quest for meaning. — Jack Cummins
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