On the impossible-to-you world: This doesn’t seem so weird or impossible to me? And I think I can tell a pretty easy cultural story slash write an alternative universe novel where we honor those who maximize genetic fitness and all that, and have for a long time—and that this could help explain why civilization and our intelligence developed so damn slowly and all that. Although to truly make the full evidential point that world then has to be weirder still where humans are much more reluctant to mode shift in various ways. It’s also possible this points to you having already accepted from other places the evidence I think evolution introduces, so you’re confused why people keep citing it as evidence.
The ability to write fiction in a world does not demonstrate its plausibility. Beware generalizing from fictional fictional evidence!
The claim that such a world is impossible is a claim that, were you to try to write a fictional version of it, you would run into major holes in the world that you would have to either ignore or paper over with further unrealistic assumptions.
The ability to write fiction in a world does not demonstrate its plausibility. Beware generalizing from fictional fictional evidence!
The claim that such a world is impossible is a claim that, were you to try to write a fictional version of it, you would run into major holes in the world that you would have to either ignore or paper over with further unrealistic assumptions.