BigBlackCockroachIt's impossible to want/like anything that doesn't increase the frequency of your genes in the next generation.
CandelestineSo, evolution creates systems. But, those systems arose through a different system of random mutation creating everything and some of those getting weeded out.
You have no way of knowing with certainty if one of your behaviors is an evolutionary successful one, handed down through generations, or actually a much more recent lolrandom one. Also, you cannot predict if a behavior that worked great in an environment like the stone age or an ice age suddenly does not work so great in the information age. You didn’t change, your genes didn’t, but the world around you did, and thus the “things that will work” sure as fuck did.
So, it’s complicated. This is a fun thought though. You might like more advanced biology studies.
or actually a much more recent lolrandom one.
the likelihood of which is vanishingly small, and the likelihood of it not being a silent one is even exponentially vanishingly smaller.
What makes you say its vanishingly small? It’s directly proportional to numerous environmental factors.
The number of mutations are vanishingly small compared to the genetic code of billions of pairs. The fraction of mutations that are not silent is even smaller.
99% of those genes don’t have expression in protein structure though. Also, it does happen at a higher rate than an uneducated person might expect. Every person you’ve ever met or heard of get cancer, required around a dozen individual mutations to disable various cell safety mechanisms for the cancer to even begin, in that one cell. Individual cells don’t live that long either.
Do you have any data to support what you are saying, that mutation is actually rare in the world?
I don’t have any data. I am not saying there isn’t any, but I am obviously no scientist/academic.
It is a very small rate of incidence. The thing that screws us is even something rare will still have a good chance of happening when you roll the dice on it for every individual cell. It’s such a large number of cells, it balances out the low incidence rate.
alright, I’ll take your word for it
but I am obviously no scientist/academic.
Yes, that is indeed quite obvious.