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barbara
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Message 98 of 103 (586922)
10-15-2010 2:50 PM
Reply to: Message 97 by Omnivorous
10-15-2010 11:29 AM


Re: Mirror neurons
Altruism is a spectrum of behavior that steps outside of genetic programming. The T.O.E.'s primary principle that life is an undirected process is not a good candidate to explain altruism.
Some humans will sacrifice their lives to save another life is a directed choice process. We have a spectrum of choices regarding behavior and this has less to do with genetic programming and more to do with interacting with our environment.
In nature, predator/prey mechanism must allow decision making in directing its own action to survive another day or end up on the menu if it made the wrong choice.
Evolution that primarily deals with large amounts of time to support their theory conflicts with altruism because it deals with present time interactions with the environment.
How we survived in the past with behavior choices is entirely different than what is exhibited today. It has nothing to do with evolution.

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