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Re:Six Signs of Scientism (2009) [pdf] by zkmon on Sunday May 10, 2020 @06:05PM (#23136717)
you know what I meant. Biologically, human got less capable, less fit into the ecosystem and less tolerable for changes. That's how evolution measures the progress of a species.
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Re:Six Signs of Scientism (2009) [pdf] by varjag on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:22AM (#23151352)
What I mean is you are attributing virtue to an emergent process. Evolution doesn't care, and survival in primordial forest is not any more "important" metric than existence elsewhere, elsehow.

Either way the human species are perhaps the most successful in fitness and survival of all thus far.

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