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It's not about persuasion as much as facts and arguments

The essence of panpsychism is that consciousness is an irreducible property of the universe, and I'm of the belief that everything, literally everythi...

Have to admit, "egoism" wasn't really the best term to use here, or anywhere in OP. What I really meant was hedonism (in the philosophical sense of th...

None of these things are going to happen, not at least in our lifetimes

Just fear mongering

IMO a good reason for the illusion of altruism is the innate human desire for socialization and companionship, which were most definitely necessary fo...

I don't know, man. I've only ever seen people arguing over the existence/non existence of altruism use arguments that are riddled with biases and obje...

ah. Just realized you don't get notificationsin this forum unless you're tagged.

Despite lacking free will, our brains tend to do what we prefer and avoid what we don't enjoy, thanks to millions of years of programming behind it

well, at least you don't have the preference to feel pain. Imagine if that were the case, and it would be outside your control

And congratulations on your 600th post here X-)

Yes, that's precisely what I'm saying in the OP. Evolution also doesn't explain this predisposition of organisms to act in self interest. If you had t...

And, there are only two ways to explain consciousness IMO. Panpsychism or emergentism. Emergentism has bigger problems

But in any case, inert matter needed to able to differentiate sensations. It simply couldn't have been the case that activities that produce positive ...

I made another thread http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/559/egoism-and-evolution/p1

Thanks for all the responses. There are periods where I do not think of these kind of things for days at a stretch and occasionally on some days philo...