Jay Hanson wrote:
>
> >Don't over-estimate the value of aggression.  many of us are here today
>
> People are genetically optimized to maximize "inclusive fitness".  Inclusive
> fitness is a very broad category and includes behavior ranging from Mother
> Teresa, to suicide bombers, to Bill Gates.  These behaviors only make
> scientific sense when viewed through Dawkin's so-called "selfish gene"
> metaphor.
>
> In short, evolution theory provides a scientific explanation for observed
> human behavior.  It's a very interesting subject, but quite difficult to
> really understand.  This is because we are genetically-biased against
> self-knowledge.  Self-knowledge isn't for everyone, but I like it.

But is it true knowlege or something from a
book? Remember books only teach the first 10%,
the other 90% of the knowlege come from years of
thinking about it. If you just spent 4 years
reading psych textbooks it may require another
36 years of thinking about what you read... ;o)

If you actually came across a homosuperior, a
person at the frontier of human development,
ie; someone who could take on any new challenge
and outperform you many times over you would
probably diagnose an antisocial paranoid
bipolar schitzophrenic. Ferraris are uncomfortable
and get lousy fuel economy. Who judges what is
superior or inferior? Many of the people who
can really outperform us are locked up...
-Roman

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