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Foresight
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“
We ought to live each day as though
it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas, I know
it would have killed me long ago.
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Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye. Natural selection . . . has no purpose in mind'.
I think this distinction is wrong. There is no denying that the human watchmaker is different from th
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― The Meme Machine
― The Meme Machine
