On Dec 17, 2007 4:31 AM, Samantha Atkins <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Dec 15, 2007, at 6:35 AM, <a href="mailto:citta437@aol.com">citta437@aol.com</a> wrote:<br><br>> The philosophical question is why is it that the brain is genetically<br>> wired for self-preservation?<br><br>
Hmm. You are asking why there is survival value in acting and wanting<br>to act to survive?<br></blockquote></div><br>Easy question. Because "survivalists" tend to perform better demographically (anti-survival memes, even though not genes, can occasionally spread faster than they adversely affect their bearers, but this does not disprove the general principle), and so they are by definition largely predominant in any vegetal or animal species, including our own.
<br><br>Stefano Vaj<br><br><br>