Brett

My point here is of an organism not competing and that the action of not competing was an aberration. The OP was not about what life is "all about". I...

I’m now going to throw in Schopenhauer’s World as Will. Any comments @"schopenhauer1"?

If you read my posts with a little less bias you’ll see that that is not what I mean. I’m not saying how the world is”supposed to work”. Where did you...

Yes, you want your child to survive.

Does the exception prove the rule?

This is where, intentionally or unintentionally, I think you play games. Or maybe it’s just splitting hairs. Anyone can have an idea. I have them all ...

If they don’t win, for instance, they don’t go into the next round. What’s the point of developing resources, etc, if it’s not to win?

Why do you think they’re there?

I don’t think I’ve tried to define survive. The definition of survive I imagine is to continue to live. But anyway, even if that were true I haven’t r...

That’s just silly. True, players on a team may communicate and collaborate with each other, but in an effort to win. But, suppose a small collective l...

I’m not sure if I actually said that but I’ll think about it anyway. Edit: yes it would be the ultimate quality of life. How could it not be? How can ...

Not necessarily. It’s because we have learned to survive so well that we have managed to survive the brutality of evolution. So in time that allowed o...

Sport is competition. Even a mountain climber on his own competes with the mountain. My point was that I don’t think competition only occurs in times ...

So what do you think is going on in a game of football? Edit: And why do you think people cooperate?

Presumably you regard competition as a psychotic activity, a human aberration. That the sickest rise to the top. I don’t know if it’s a fact that they...

So we’re back to the beginning; is there such a thing as human nature and what is it?

I presume that what you mean by this is that we don’t need to define something by one of its many properties. and that there’s no reason to exclude it...

Yes, I agree, but only in the context you put it. Yes competition is not “what life is all about”, yes it’s an arbitrary perspective. The way you put ...

Right, that’s competition is in whatever language you want to put it.

Though it’s my feeling that features of organisms don’t evolve because they served some particular function. That would be intentionality. It’s comple...

Yes, I do recall a previous OP about your perspective on evolution.

Is life all about competition? It is now.

“ Competition is just a matter of quantitative perspective - it’s an arbitrary choice that we continually make ... to compete... “ — Possibility So wh...

Competition creates meaning in a meaningless world.

To convince you to play the game? The carrot on the stick. But my question then is how long has this been going on? And competition obviously exists b...

If we observe life in its many forms is there anything consistent in them? The guy on the space hopper, his actions tell us very little about him. But...

You do have a point which I’m thinking about.

Sure, but what if you leave out “about”? “Life is competition”. Edit: just out of interest, would you say life is about survival or not. Or do you mea...

I just went back to one of your posts. True. But why tolerable?

Do you mean what if life is meaningless?

That is an interesting point. “Evolutionary biologists define exaptations as features of organisms that evolved because they served some function but ...

I’ve replied to and read a number of your posts in the past and have an idea where you’re coming from. But each of those words “ perceived potential” ...

That we are ethical creatures: “Darwin’s two most significant points concerning the evolution of morality are stated early in chapter III of The Desce...

Because we are ethical creatures. That may sound ridiculously simplistic, but what else can I say? Except, of course, that the morals based on those e...

So this “success” is what life is about. And what is that?

Yes, life is about survival. Competition is a strategy. If, hypothetically, all our needs were catered for: food, shelter, etc, would we still be comp...

I’m not sure how you got that impression, in fact I’ve received a considerable amount of flak on this forum for being positive about human nature. As ...

Yes, they are of a animal nature, common across the planet. Most of it is probably achieved by instinct, or association among other things. It’s repet...

Reason responds in a fluid way. It’s fixed as a core attribute but it’s responses are fluid. In fact our nature is exactly the same now as it was earl...

I’ve only scanned the rest of this OP so my post may gave already been addressed, but I feel that the part of us that our environment does not affect ...

So what you’re saying is we’re only free to be human. I’d go along with that.

If you’re suggesting that the Kantian system could be viewed as an ideology then I would agree. In terms of the C.I. it’s a way of addressing a proble...

I know many see ethics and morals as synonymous, and use them that way. But I see ethics as the foundation of morals. We evolved into ethical creature...

Part of my problem with C.I. was in defining, among my many thoughts, a way of clarifying a C.I. So having the idea of a contradiction works for me as...

So what determines the action? I agree that we are imbued with moral agency, but that does not give us the answer to a moral dilemma, does it? Don’t y...

I don’t agree with you there, but I’m not sure it’s worth it to prove myself right, or you to prove me wrong, in relation to the OP. It’s enough that ...

It works for me.

My feeling is that it would lead to a breakdown in the structure of the family. That would be a concern, and a contradiction, if you thought family wa...

I think that all cultures are ideological. They always have been. But today there are cultures within cultures within cultures. Each have their own id...

So then it may be more of an ideological position.