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So, you believe we are a product of genetics and environment. Most everyone believes that, don't they?
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Yes. Entirely so.
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Even religious people do. Of all the mammalia, why do think we are the only specimen that evolved to our level at the top of the phylum, genus, you know that thing.
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Evolution through natural selection. But of course our senses are entirely comparable to the rest of the animal kingdom - bats have infinately better senses of hearing, dogs have far better sense of smell, eagles have much more advanced sight, and on it goes. We were given bigger brains/more brain capacity and so we have learnt ways to sheild ourselves from the environment and use other animals to our own advantage.
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I hate to think that we are born to have emotions, language and intelligence such that the internet can be created, just to die with our soul meaning nothing.
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I don't believe anyone else, myself included, does either. The truth, at least the truth I believe, isn't always met with happiness.
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If that is so, why would we cry and feel grief, embarrassment, guilt and learn and grow and gamble, which is what I need to do right now.
cheers
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There are so many explanations to these questions, the main reason I can think of is in nature. Elephants can still remember a carcass belonging to their relative many years later and express their own sadness. The numbness one feels after a loved one dies, for instance, is one such mechanism that deals with coping with the current situation.