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[Brent Allsop]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 8:42 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Hello Brent,
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2023, Brent Allsop via extropy-chat wrote:
> > Seems to me, survival is always, necessarily, better than not
> surviving.  That is why evolution must progress in all sufficiently
> > complex worlds?
>
> I can imagine many situations where I would probably choose to end my
> life. So I do not think, for me, that survival trumps everything,
> everytime.
>

Yes, there are cases where external influences may temporarily render
survival the lesser evil.

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?

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.

Brent
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