[ExI] the ethics of the Vile Offspring

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sun May 22 17:52:20 UTC 2011


On 5/22/2011 12:39 PM, Keith Henson wrote:

> At the root of it, what evolves?  What changes?  Genes.

Creatures don't thrive or die directly because of genes, which are 
invisible to selection (unless they are broken so they fail to code 
anything). Creatures thrive or die due to the interaction of their 
phenotypes and their environments.

Damien Broderick



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