Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Dark Way Axioms - Number Two

Dark Way Axioms - Number Two

Our daytime consciousness is concerned with survival fitness, not with truth.

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Dark Way Axioms - Number Two
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Suppose the human race is the most successful species on Earth. In that case, it must finely tune its consciousness to the things that promote survival and procreation and similarly be highly sensitive to the things that threaten survival and procreation. Our daytime consciousness must be driven by survival utility and wholly shaped by it. Survival util…

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