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Biological existentialism

Name: Anonymous 2005-02-03 10:30

Is a cell an organism's way of propagating more organisms or is an organism a cell's way of propagating more cells?

Logically, a cell exists purely to create more of itself and an organism is just the method it utilizes to exploit a particular ecological niche.Cells vs. Organisms You could argue that the organism as a whole has more control over its cells (via processes such as apoptosis) and there isn't such a thing as cellular independance, but that's precisely what cancer is.

That being said, it's likely that emotions, "sentient thought" and other touted concepts like "love (in all forms)" are purely the manifestations or relics of biological necessity. Love serves a function in that it provides psychological stability (and dependancy), plus it increases the chance of you or your gene's continued survival. Some arguments you can make from this standpoint:

All emotions are entirely likely to be the product/result of biological necessity - and possess no innate profound significance.

Purpose beyond procreation and survival is an illusion. The meaning of life is sex.

Is everyone fundamentally a walking bag of meat and hormones?

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-29 8:35

>Some might say the meaning of life is to propagate, but what is the meaning of propagation?
The successful humans will be those who desire to propagate. The meaning of life for an individual isn't to sustain the race, but to satisfy whatever desires they have, and those with who are able to enact out the desires that happen to propagate their genes the most will be the most successful.

I do not believe in good and evil. The idea that everyones perception of good and evil is merging seems completely wrong to me.

I believe you're being too simplistic. It is impossible to say that dying is completely bad, because someone may view dying as a good thing if it saves their children, for example. Things aren't just black and white.

I don't know exactly why art persistantly appears through the ages, but my guess is that the desire to create art is the same desire that has led to scientific breakthroughs etc. I think is fairly easy to show from history that law has been used as a way to control a populous for security, fun, and profit.

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