No, they are not built on falsehood. The mythology has the correct shape, ie its models are isomorphic to the desired specification of coordination in a stable agrarian society. Is only false if you require peasants to understand cosmology, which you don’t.
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Our body does not treat its cells in a humanistic way. China does not treat its citizens in a humanistic way. Humanism requires additional constraints. Can we prove that these constraints maximize probability of survival, or come for free? If not, will humanism be outcompeted?
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Well it’s not about proving, of course. But I can think of *reasons* why humanism might outcompete totalitarianism. Society’s largest gains in strength tend to come from ideas originating in individual creative human minds.
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You and I both currently exist and have preferences. The idea that we should only care about people whose preferences are for survival because they are more likely to achieve it is circular.
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That is not implied in any way. But a rational agent that is concerned about its survival will have to be concerned more about competition that optimizes for survival as well, because the rest tends to go away by itself.
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