Are you saying natural selection is random? If so you couldn't be more wrong.
No you read wrong or missed the most essential part of what I said.
"survival is what determines the direction and outcome"
That is really all there is to it. So it is not random in a sense but not necessarily shaped by anything intelligent either. It just flows like a stream if I can put it that way.
I have long ago placed the entire "purpose" of all things living and linked just about every mystery of behaviour and even every aspect of human psychology at least to my limited knowledge (perhaps even desire for an afterlife?
) and have even gone further by asserting what fundamental element would create true artificial intelligence. I can probably even explain why you and I are posting on this forum today or perhaps why you might listen to the music you do given some serious thought and desire to try.
I can even take it further to describe why we do things that seem to go against survival by substituting our basic indicator of good survival (any form of happiness or positive reinforcement) for things that temporarily play on our survival instinct, as in why we are lazy, why we take drugs, why we might commit suicide (paradox? think about it) etc... And all this is based on one word, survival, like a foundation for our minds and for all things that live. And I have also on some previous occasion explained the more profound implication of the word survival as it builds on itself as a goal that is never 100% fulfilled or satisfied by any living thing both in terms of evolution and in terms of our day to day existence - I like to think this is why things keep moving, why life lives. To me it is a very important word, it doesn't just mean shelter and security or whatever I can only assume others might think.
So it would be difficult to argue with me on this
unless you can shatter my entire universe with an equally relevant piece of logic.
And I only assert this view based on lack of a viable alternative, it was a natural progression of thinking and "joining the dots" on my part. I would love to be proved wrong though, and perhaps this would be easy to do? My whole theory started on a very basic question, how do newborns who are unintelligent in one clear sense of the word "know" how to cry the moment they are born when they don't even know what crying means which to our developed minds indicates so much emotion and can be extremely complex? correct me if I am wrong but along with breathing it is usually one of their first actions, and it got me thinking about instinct and the purpose of instinct to indicate positive/negative reinforcement and from there it went on and on. And how vital any basic instinct is to bridge the gap towards conscious development and intelligence in every human being to ensure longer term survival and a continuous cycle. But another story for another thread perhaps.
When I came to this conclusion initially it gave me a great sense of coldness and emptiness and discomfort, so I was only drawn by its simplicity it isn't what I wished for in a sense of knowing why people work the way they do without the need for anything more profound. But nowadays I understand even more which has made it more profound again... if I needed to elaborate on my understanding...but I digress.
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