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Are You Thinking About Evolutionary Success?
I struggled with that in the book because I don't have the answers. When you talk about animals being successful, what do you mean? Do we have any ways of gauging to animals experience meaning and purpose for example? It's hard to know. We know humans do do it, but that's one of the things I question in the book. All those amazing cognitive skills that allow us to find this meaning are also quickly hurtling us toward extinction,. So they may not be good for us in the long term.