I started on The Selfish Gene recently and it is a real revelation. It’s going to take a lot of getting used to to think of myself as a “mere” machine to ensure the continuation of my genes. Once humans cease to be special, somehow above and apart from the world that built them you have to start rethinking a lot of your assumptions.
I wonder if anyone ever remarked on the seemingly excellent evidence thus provided for Hinduism over Christianity. Probably not.
Well, David Hume did. In the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Although not with a totally straight face.
The best book-long treatise about your points is probably Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. But you probably know that.
I started on The Selfish Gene recently and it is a real revelation. It’s going to take a lot of getting used to to think of myself as a “mere” machine to ensure the continuation of my genes. Once humans cease to be special, somehow above and apart from the world that built them you have to start rethinking a lot of your assumptions.