Are you sure it was Camus? I thought this is more or less what what Red was saying to Andy Dufresne.
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myth of sisyphus :)
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It's just a very literal version of survivorship bias. Dead people don't tweet about their philosophy.
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Hmm except that all of traditional religious philosophy is concerned with survival rather than self-actualization (which is a relatively modern concern of organized religion, post ~1800s). That's why I excluded it. They usually land on some sort of duty-driven imperative to live
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I've amused myself more and more by thinking of "the living" as a sort of ingroup, like... obnoxious vegan crossfittershttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/994015423724060672 …
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Wiener's 1948 "Cybernetics" did. He proposed that selecting(by surviving to reproduction) a frequency that lends itself toward a feeling of comfort then normalizes all life around certain comfortable frequencies of neural firing. This is more than just Darwinian evolution.
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