🧩 Philosophy 1d ago · AnnaSalamon

Eyesight as a replicator, with genes as its vehicle

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Eyesight as a replicator, with genes as its vehicle
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Dear reader, this post will be completed in some hours; I'm posting it now because I'm participating in justwrite.club and I don't want to forfeit $1k. I'll remove this note when it's done. That said, the sections that are below are real; what I'm still doing is adding the "coming soon" sections.----Or: The payload lens on DarwinTl;dr: What is the most natural teleological shorthand to use, when thinking about evolution?The “gene-centered view” of e.g. Dawkins says: genes are “trying” to increas

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