Saturday, June 22, 2013

And The Selfish Gene stunk too...

It is surely rather surprising that we – creatures who are, as [Dawkins] has explained, merely lumbering robots, survival-machines entirely controlled by these super-beings – are, at this stage of our evolution, suddenly free to rise up with one bound and overpower them.
 How Richard Dawkins went further than Hobbes and ended up ludicrously wrong
Dawkin's therefore somehow posits an ability -- free will -- that he would say we have never exercised to date.  Moreover, his entire premise is based on a metaphysical extraction of an emergent property (“selfishness” of a gene) to an organism.  Emergent properties of course are something reductionism of Dawkin's sort would not countenance, yet are the basis for his micro theory and his expansion to macro theory:

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