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The mental “I” that exists in our brains wants to break free from its genetic servitude, to no longer be held captive by the Darwinian processes that got us all here. We, as intelligent individuals, want to live forever and to preserve our society. We want to escape from the evolutionary forces that created us.
A Thousand Brains_ A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
In lists of logical fallacies, you will fnd included “the genetic fallacy”—the fallacy of attacking a belief based on someone’s causes for believing it.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
But wealth had another advantage, too. Not only could it buy wives directly, it could also buy "power." It is noteworthy that it is hard to distinguish between wealth and power before the time of the Renaissance. Until then there was no such thing as an power economic sector independent of the power structure. A man's livelihood and his allegiance were owed to the same social superior. Power is, roughly speaking, the ability to call do your bidding, and that depended strictly on wealth (with a little help from violence).
The Red Queen
Matt Ridley
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