<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 8:42 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello Brent,<br>On Sat, 17 Jun 2023, Brent Allsop via extropy-chat wrote:<br>> Seems to me, survival is always, necessarily, better than not surviving. That is why evolution must progress in all sufficiently<br>
> complex worlds?<br>
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I can imagine many situations where I would probably choose to end my<br>
life. So I do not think, for me, that survival trumps everything,<br>
everytime.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, there are cases where external influences may temporarily render survival the lesser evil.</div><div><br></div><div>However, in absence of that, survival is necessarily better. That is why evolution must occur in all sufficiently complex systems, unless there is some external God (devil?) to interfere. It sounds like you disagree with this?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I like to have faith that all greater evils, too, can be overcome, eventually illuminating them (including overcoming some Devil?), so there are no such greater evil justifications necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>Brent</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>