Re:World Works Differently for the Most Beautiful
by vimacs2 on Monday August 16, 2021 @02:15PM
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This comment is like saying to somebody explaining the increased rate of car crashes with people talking on phones as a consequence of divided attention as saying that has nothing to do with that and it's because we're genetically conditioned to only focus our conscious attention on one task.
Mechanics and second order effects matter. Reductionism is a useful conceptual tool but it isn't a good representation of wider reality because things are more than the sum of their parts.
You seem to be missing the fact that genetics are simply encoding the proteins and it is the biological feedback systems mediated by dopamine that are actually driving our actions.
We are genetically conditioned to be attracted to beauty, to equal beauty with health, and good genes. We choose beautiful mates in effort to maximize our children's chances of survival. The fact that we also like pretty animals, and everything else described in the article, is just a side effect of that.