As a result most of the people he has interacted with over the past decade are men, and evolution has programmed him to feel desperate and act creepy.
For all that it’s relevant to your point and means in context, you might as well replace “evolution has programmed him” with “he is being moved by the gods.”
Yeah, I’m not sure why telling myself “I have a strong inclination to do x” and “evolution programmed me to do y in order to acheive z” feel so different.
Generally, I find that if the behavior is fitness-maximizing (seeking social interaction, sex, food, etc), I think of it as “evolution programmed me”, whereas in the case of things that are not obviously fitness-maximizing (finding interesting puzzles/challenges, building things, playing guitar, etc), I think of it as “I have an inclination to X”. It might actually also have to do with whether most people have similar urges as well, now that I think about it.
For all that it’s relevant to your point and means in context, you might as well replace “evolution has programmed him” with “he is being moved by the gods.”
Yeah, I’m not sure why telling myself “I have a strong inclination to do x” and “evolution programmed me to do y in order to acheive z” feel so different.
Generally, I find that if the behavior is fitness-maximizing (seeking social interaction, sex, food, etc), I think of it as “evolution programmed me”, whereas in the case of things that are not obviously fitness-maximizing (finding interesting puzzles/challenges, building things, playing guitar, etc), I think of it as “I have an inclination to X”. It might actually also have to do with whether most people have similar urges as well, now that I think about it.
The blind idiot god Evolution knows little of this human invention called “morality” …