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Why Evolution Isn't Encentivized by Consciousness
Economics has incentivized people to strip evolutionary rewards from the things they would have to do to get them. So if i'm hungry and i crave macdonald's, I just get a concentration of salt, fat and sugar with maximum palatability - stripped of fibre and micronutrients. It hits all of the dope, menergic, you know, reward centers, but neither has new traans sent it nor does it actually require any evolutionary activity of my body. And that's pretty much the same thing that porn is to actual sex, which involves intimacy and relationship and lots of things like that. We're going into the sam payoffs without the work, in our