We wouldn't make the choices we make if it was all biological. Take a look at a fly, will it all of a sudden just decide to not eat feces to surive?Teetotaler said:Assuming God does not exist,
Why do we seek to main the existence of our species, when we, personally, do not benefit from the existence of our decendants?
Is consciousness just a biological mechanism for keeping a body full of living cells safe?
If this is so, what does anything matter?
What is the "ultimate goal" of the human being?
What are the top reasons for me to live a moral/virtuous life?
I appreciate your replies.
And if it was all a survival mechanism then evidentally there wouldn't be suicide existant. As we wouldn't be thriving on pleasure we'd be thriving on mainly existing.
If it's all survival it's a pretty crappy survival mechanism, wouldn't you say?
As for there not being a God, then existance is thus inexoribly irrelivant. Your existant means nothing, becuz in death if there is no after life there is just absense of consiousnes, thus there is no reason to live and all life is just an irrelivance.
And if anatomy isn't enough for you try a Universal approach towards the questioning of God.
The Universe is like a mechanism. it's exact, it's apsolute, and it's physics are apsolute. If there was no intelligence responsible like all other mechanisms it wouldn't exist. Everything works like a mechanism or is a cog for the mechanism, and is apsolute.
There's also the causal approach. The idea that nothing can happen on it's own and that every action needs an equal and opposite reaction. And that everything, so apsolute and exact can have only one apsolute and exact intelligent reaction.
I hope I helped you in some way.