Professor, I'm very curious about this statement of yours: -
"What we need is a truly anti-Darwinian society. Anti-Darwinian in the sense that we don’t wish to live in a society where the weakest go to the wall, where the strongest suppress the weak, and even kill the weak. We — I, at least — do not wish to live in that kind of society. I want to live in the sort of society where we take care of the sick, where we take care of the weak, take care of the oppressed, which is a very anti-Darwinian society.”
Could you elaborate on this? If your brain has evolved over hundreds of millions of years to enhance survival according to Darwinian principles, why do you suppose the brain -- your brain -- is now reflecting on its environment and concluding that an anti-Darwinian society is desirable?
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Professor, I'm very curious about this statement of yours: -
"What we need is a truly anti-Darwinian society. Anti-Darwinian in the sense that we don’t wish to live in a society where the weakest go to the wall, where the strongest suppress the weak, and even kill the weak. We — I, at least — do not wish to live in that kind of society. I want to live in the sort of society where we take care of the sick, where we take care of the weak, take care of the oppressed, which is a very anti-Darwinian society.”
Could you elaborate on this? If your brain has evolved over hundreds of millions of years to enhance survival according to Darwinian principles, why do you suppose the brain -- your brain -- is now reflecting on its environment and concluding that an anti-Darwinian society is desirable?
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