My Thought Experiment on Artificial Intelligence. Long, so if you don't like philosophy, you wont read this. Post #79645 • Liberal Forum

FOS » 26 Jun 2022, 2:35 pm » wrote: ↑
26 Jun 2022, 2:35 pm
no...human beings are clearly a product of evolution.

All of our behavior can easily be explained and predicted from the lens of reproductive fitness.

Reproductive fitness of the TRIBE, mind you. Because that is all that actually matters from a macroscopic perspective. Yes individuals will sacrifice themselves..just like ants and bees will sacrifice themselves for the hive...but they do so in hopes of increasing the reproductive fitness of the tribe.

Gene replication does not objectively benefit any entity we know of. Not even ourselves...since the desire to survive itself is simply a preference we happen to be programmed with.

Considering these facts it is very difficult for me to imagine...even if we were created artificially...then by whom and to what end?

There are scientists that maintain that there hasn't been enough time on Earth to evolve humans from the chemical creation of life via a single cell.

That would imply that while our planet was still settling down to a livable state, evolving cells were percolating elsewhere on a planet with liquid water.
These were blasted off into space (achieving escape velocity alive in this detonation) and then, also surviving a re-entry after perhaps thousands of years of intergalactic or interstellar space travel.

Hey, it could happen. Philosophy is largely human imagination (as is religion). It's all good.

Please seat yourself.

I like the very things you hate.