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17. “The grand illusion of life is that our minds have the capacity to understand reality. But human minds didn’t evolve to understand reality. We didn’t need that capability. A clear view of reality wasn’t necessary for our survival. Evolution cares only that you survive long enough to procreate. And that’s a low bar. The result is that each of us is, in effect, living in our own little movie that our brain has cooked up for us to explain our experiences.”
Scott Adams
Reality, Mind, Perception, Psychology, Evolution
18. “I Have No Reason To Believe Humans Evolved With The Capability To Understand Their Reality. That Capability Was Not Important To Survival. When It Comes To Evolution, Any Illusion That Keeps Us Alive Long Enough To Procreate Is Good Enough.” Scott Adams Evolution, Survival, Reality, Psychology, Illusion
19. “Confirmation Bias Isn’t An Occasional Bug In Our Human Operating System. It Is The Operating System. We Are Designed By Evolution To See New Information As Supporting Our Existing Opinions, So Long As It Doesn’t Stop Us From Procreating. Evolution Doesn’t Care If You Understand Your Reality. It Only Cares That You Reproduce.” Scott Adams Psychology, Bias, Evolution, Human-nature, Perception
22. “If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.” Herbert Spencer Evolution, Life, Science, Time, Development
26. “We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.” Herbert Spencer Evolution, Change, Growth, Complexity, Structure
29. “The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.” Herbert Spencer Happiness, Evolution, Survival, Change, Consequences
30. “Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.” Herbert Spencer Ethics, Morality, Evolution, Society, Life
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17. “The grand illusion of life is that our minds have the capacity to understand reality. But human minds didn’t evolve to understand reality. We didn’t need that capability. A clear view of reality wasn’t necessary for our survival. Evolution cares only that you survive long enough to procreate. And that’s a low bar. The result is that each of us is, in effect, living in our own little movie that our brain has cooked up for us to explain our experiences.”
Scott Adams Reality, Mind, Perception, Psychology, Evolution
18. “I Have No Reason To Believe Humans Evolved With The Capability To Understand Their Reality. That Capability Was Not Important To Survival. When It Comes To Evolution, Any Illusion That Keeps Us Alive Long Enough To Procreate Is Good Enough.”
Scott Adams Evolution, Survival, Reality, Psychology, Illusion
19. “Confirmation Bias Isn’t An Occasional Bug In Our Human Operating System. It Is The Operating System. We Are Designed By Evolution To See New Information As Supporting Our Existing Opinions, So Long As It Doesn’t Stop Us From Procreating. Evolution Doesn’t Care If You Understand Your Reality. It Only Cares That You Reproduce.”
Scott Adams Psychology, Bias, Evolution, Human-nature, Perception
22. “If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.”
Herbert Spencer Evolution, Life, Science, Time, Development
26. “We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.”
Herbert Spencer Evolution, Change, Growth, Complexity, Structure
29. “The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.”
Herbert Spencer Happiness, Evolution, Survival, Change, Consequences
30. “Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.”
Herbert Spencer Ethics, Morality, Evolution, Society, Life
