I am not TurnTrout, but it seems to me that, since producing and raising children is the default evolutionary goal, there is no override that makes us snap out of our normal abstract-reason-mode and start caring about that. A better way to think about it is the opposite—that reason and abstract thinking and building rocket ships IS the override, and it’s one that we’ve put on ourselves. Occasionally our brains get put in situations where they remind us more strongly “Hey? You know that thing that’s supposed* to be your purpose in life? GO DO THAT.”
*This is the abstract voice of evolution speaking, not me. I don’t happen to be aligned with it.
I am not TurnTrout, but it seems to me that, since producing and raising children is the default evolutionary goal, there is no override that makes us snap out of our normal abstract-reason-mode and start caring about that. A better way to think about it is the opposite—that reason and abstract thinking and building rocket ships IS the override, and it’s one that we’ve put on ourselves. Occasionally our brains get put in situations where they remind us more strongly “Hey? You know that thing that’s supposed* to be your purpose in life? GO DO THAT.”
*This is the abstract voice of evolution speaking, not me. I don’t happen to be aligned with it.