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作者：bystander 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
than that.
The following is from an article called "The Soul of Science" by Michael Shermer:
"Life's most basic purpose is survival and reproduction, and for 3.5 billion years, organisms from the pre-Cambrian to us form an unbroken continuity. This alone ennobles us, but add the innumerable steps from bacteria to big brains and the countless points at which our lineage could have died and we conclude that human beings are a glorious contingency in the history of life."
"Humans have an evolved sense of purpose－a psychological desire to accomplish goals－that developed out of behaviors that were selected for because they were good for the individual or the group. The desire to behave in purposeful ways is an evolved trait; purpose is in our nature. And with brains big enough to discover and define purpose in symbolic ways that are inconceivable to millions of preceding and coexisting species, we humans are unique."
If the author's reasoning is sound, then we have a contradiction here. We are the only species with an evolved sense of purpose that goes beyond mere survival and reproduction. As such we might also cast doubt on the first proposition I mentioned, namely, that there is no ultimate purpose (telos) in evolution.
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