These are values you consciously have. But the reason for all your values, if traced back far enough, lies in genetic fitness. Your not being conscious of that doesn’t change it.
The cause of my having these values doesn’t really make a difference to what my values are. The values I’m conscious of is all that matters to me. I have no moral or emotional commitment whatsoever to reproductive efficiency. That is not one of my values.
Atoms don’t influence the evolution of a species or its values in any particular direction. The system we’re looking at is bounded at “the bottom” by selection.
Evolution is a super slow optimization process, and the environment changes. I’m equally “genetically fit” (i.e. I was born to survivors) to any thing alive today, but have a very different goal set.
These are values you consciously have. But the reason for all your values, if traced back far enough, lies in genetic fitness. Your not being conscious of that doesn’t change it.
The cause of my having these values doesn’t really make a difference to what my values are. The values I’m conscious of is all that matters to me. I have no moral or emotional commitment whatsoever to reproductive efficiency. That is not one of my values.
But the reason for all your values, if traced back far enough, lies in atoms. Your not being conscious of that doesn’t change it.
Atoms don’t influence the evolution of a species or its values in any particular direction. The system we’re looking at is bounded at “the bottom” by selection.
Evolution is a super slow optimization process, and the environment changes. I’m equally “genetically fit” (i.e. I was born to survivors) to any thing alive today, but have a very different goal set.