"People don't want to see the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed" Nietzsche
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If anything is obsolete, it is the gene-centric view of evolutionary change presented in the Selfish Gene, along with seductive but deeply confused metaphors.
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"Most writers still assume that evo favors group harmony or species survival, unaware they are saying something obsolete" Please elaborate, Steven. 'Most writers' today seem far more fatalistic from what I can tell, bent on promoting ruthless group competition to support elitism.
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I think some nuance is warranted here. People often conflate determinism and fatalism as though they're the same thing. From what I can tell though,
@sapinker specifically rails against fatalism in his upcoming book "Enlightenment now." Thoughts?
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Having read it twice my only irritation about the book is that most people have only read the title, so the many attempts of Prof Dawkins to clarify what is meant by a "selfish gene" are ignored in people's criticism of the book.
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I took two things from the book: 1. Opens the mind to a different and more accurate perception of causality. 2. Shows that altruism can ...
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...benefit the survival and propagation of the gene even more than the individual’s own self interest.
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Over On the Origin of Species by some no name guy in the 19th century, apparently.
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Well it certainly inspired in that it changed the course of history, but as a book it’s not “inspiring” in that kind of poetic way, it’s fairly dry for the most part.
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Just ordered my copy.
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You should also order Dance to the Tune of Life by Denis Noble to get a true view of the genes' role in evolution.
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Noble has another book too and also I cannot forget Evolution in Four Dimensions by Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb and The Ontogeny of Information by Susan Oyama.
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I prefer Newton’s Principia Mathematica for this title. Dawkins is science popularisation, a form of new mythology, in fact.
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I never understood why you think group selection cannot work. Jonathan Haidt makes a very good argument in favor of group selection in "The Righteous Mind". It doesn't matter that evolution happens at the gene level.
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The Red Queen (Ridley),is one of my favorites
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Daily reminder there is no empirical basis for the selfish gene. Daily reminder that Dawkins said that he can't imagine any experiment to prove his hypothesis.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060581/ …
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Tell that to E.O. Wilson. As if unselfish selfish genes cannot express through conscious prolonged behavioral change, and rewarding environments/mindsets.https://news.wisc.edu/study-reveals-gene-expression-changes-with-meditation/ …
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