Evolutionary Human Instincts

Basically the urges we all have, even if they can obviously lead to some awful things, are also the process of aeons of evolution. And they've shown themselves to be remarkably effective at keeping our species alive Ah, so the disagreement stems from the fact that you don't think those are all awful things. I'm afraid I can't explain it further on HN..

It's a biological imperative, not a rational thought process.

Human beings evolved to be surprisingly efficient. At any give moment, we are running in our heads a statistical analysis with a massive number of simultaneous inputs. We think about what we need, prioritize this list by level of necessity, analyze the perceived costs, multiply by probability of success, and divide by predicted time to reward. From this analysis, we make our choices whether or not to take action. In a system where people generally already have what they need, caring would be an

No, but you can consciously decide whether or not to act on finding something appealing. That's the point here - our ancient evolutionary instincts are real, but we have also evolved the ability to think rationally so we can ignore those urges if we want to. Consequently whenever someone argues "we do that because we evolved from cave people" the correct response is "but we're not cave people any more, and why are you ignoring the thousands of years of evolution that hav

I wonder why we evolved with that feeling

Amazing the lengths we'll go to just to satisfy our simple evolutionary incentive to live, no matter how ludicrous from an outside perspective :)

I feel it's what we've evolved to be tbh, regardless of what we've logically concluded.

They aren’t mindless. They’re what preserve the species and the arts and the culture and the science etc etc. I’m sorry you feel resentful about normal human instincts.

Absolutely not IMHO. It's a product of evolution. Caring vs hunting etc

Most likely, unless you meditate a lot. Sometimes you'll take a bullet to save other people. Sometimes you'll drink yourself into a state that doesn't help you survive or reproduce. Or you'll write on a forum anonymously that doesn't help with survival or reproduction because it's enjoyable, makes you think, or you're addicted. Who knows :)