Sticking a fork in Natural Selection (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, December 08, 2011, 03:13 (4713 days ago) @ David Turell

I think you may have fundamentally misunderstood exactly how deep doubt runs in me...

Got it, but with the amount of time I have left in this reality I want an answer I'm comfortable with. I'll take the info I have and make a theory that feels good to me.

At the risk of sounding combative... you do realize that to me it sounds like "I want an answer for now so I'll take whatever I can get..." I'm reminded of Nietzsche's "last man" and even George Carlin's rebuke of giving up our gifts for good feelings...

It seems so anticlimactic and... tragic. It's like Caesar refusing to cross the Rubicon, or the surrender of Troy... the glory of life shines through those gaps where we don't know, and at least in my case, my feelings are irrelevant to the chase.

Try this on for Cambrian vision complexity:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7376/full/nature10689.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-2...

Part of the abstract (I can't read the full article) discusses exactly what I would think would be the explanation: An arms race. Co-evolution with prey.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"