R
"Is the offspring with the defective heart in the "form that will leave the most copies of itself in successive generations" No, the defect will repeat in future generations. Let the defective offspring die, don't give your life to save it have other healthier offspring."
Jura
"Idiot! If the heart defect kills it before it gets to breeding it most definitely won't repeat. If it is a long term problem that kills you any time after you have had the kid but before they have flown away it will lower their chance of survival (down one parent), If it kills you after they have gone, no selection pressure, that's why we will never be immortal"
You're wrong. Again, this is what Darwin said:
"form that will leave the most copies of itself in successive generations".
How long the offspring will or won't live is a
non sequitur. My actions are in clear opposition to Darwin. I am giving my life to save the defective offspring. The offspring is flawed, it damages further offspring if it procreates.
Jura:
"Wrong! The middle insular & the anterior cingulate cortex for instance (see
http://www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk/pdf/NeuralBasisOfLove.pdf)."
I know about this study, it is referenced to romantic love not compassionate love. Am I romantically attracted to my dying child? Of course not. Romantic love and compassionate love are two entirely different things. Romantic love may play a role in procreation, although procreation can exist without it. Because you know so little on the subject you saw romantic love and falsely concluded it was the same origin as compassion. No where in the study did the student (it was a student paper) mention compassionate love. Personally I think he avoided it because, as Allman states below, the findings did not distinguish between love and lust sufficiently to satisfy him (Allman).
http://www.forbes.com/maserati/singles2004/cx_mh_0624love_04single.html"Others are more skeptical. John Allman, a Caltech neuroscientist, says the areas that lit up in Bartels' work are not as specific as he would like. "The problem is distinguishing between love and lust"
Jura:
" I think you just read a book because the best you can do is parrot someone else's opinion."
Not at all. In my early 30's I decided to reason out my life for myself, it was at that time that I formulated my premise that desire had its origin in fear. After I formulated this and other views on compassion I read extensively and found this was a basic belief. The belief that compassion is the proof that something greater than the self exists is mine. I have not found any other view specifically stating it. The development of the hypothesis and the facts I posted are all mine as is the definition of intelligence. Which by the way a PhD Dean has adopted.
R
"The first thing you need to do is give me the link."
Jura:
"I did, before, go back and find it as you obviously didn't read it"
No link there!
R