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Old 03-27-2008, 07:29 AM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by Open Mind
It seems physicalism (matter creates mind) needs to argue that natural selection found evolutionary advantages in self healing being disabled? What were the evolutionary benefits to remaining sick? Or the evolutionary disadvantages to becoming well?
What are you talking about? Why does physicalism need to argue that at all? And why are you looking at evolution from one side only? It's not that there is an advantage to us remaining sick, it's that there is an advantage to the disease agents in keeping us sick.

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I am sure the physicalist can concoct some elaborate theoretical reason to remain untroubled by such questions but in doing so, aren't they modifying Natural Selection to mean survival of the non-fittest?
As I said, you're looking at this from your viewpoint only.

Evolution is a battlefield, not a stage for H. sapiens.

~~ Paul
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