It seems clear that in radically changing environments, individuals who can seek survival faster than evolution can change the reward function will have a fitness advantage.
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The Bene Gesserit, in Dune, were a response to technology. They thought developing this “survival intent” in people was necessary for humanity to cope with technological change.
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Unfortunately, Dune is fiction, not a how-to manual. We don’t know how to make humans who are all-round just better at being human. Would be cool though. Open problem.
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The Bene Gesserit do it by breeding. Dune explores ways of being human, not being humanist. Being human in the Bene Gesserit sense (or the Fremen sense) is abhorrent to us. From the perspective of the Bene Gesserit, we are only half human, from our perspective, they are fascist.
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My view of fascism is the creation of a scalable group that fully subscribes to a totalitarian ideology that serves evolutionary goals, and defines the value of the individual as its contribution to the group (if the net value is negative, the individual is eliminated).
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Both your line of thinking and Sarah's can contribute by a review of the paradoxes Baudelaire, Bataille and Lacan wrote about as it pertained to pleasure and pain. They rightly understood that in their limit pain and pleasure lose their categories and become indistinct.
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Our evolutionary future it tied to technology which seems to scale up and accelerate our contradictions. I think that the future will show us how malleable the categories of pain and pleasure are, particularly when they are taken to their limits.
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I think Fascism is actually even worse than collective loyalty + ruthlessness to non-kin.
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[It is also ruthless to kin.] In which way do you think it is worse?
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irrationalism seems a key component as well.
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That's the point I was making with my reference to Bataille et al. Irrationalism is not the property of one system of thought. All systems end that way as you take them to their limits.
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