Mon 21 Nov, 2016 12:21 pm - [quote]"Not wanting to be eaten" and "fear of death" are results of higher brain functions, e.g. consciousness, that aren't required to avoid being eaten. [/quote]
The... (view)
Sat 19 Nov, 2016 04:44 pm - [quote]The 'fear of death' or 'desire of survival' and the millions of mechanisms for reacting to that desire had to be baked into the cake from the get-go. [/quote]
No it... (view)
Sat 19 Nov, 2016 12:03 pm - I've been cogitating. Here's a thought experiment:
Take a single celled organism to simplify the concept. Evolution may have created a “predator present–create toxin”... (view)
Sat 19 Nov, 2016 11:27 am - You (and many, many others) keep missing the question.
WHY does life want to avoid getting killed? Not "how" but "why". (view)
Sat 19 Nov, 2016 11:23 am - Few people get the reference. Congratulations!
Ol' Port was once asked by a newspaper reporter if he had ever killed a man. Port replied, "Well ... I never killed anybody that... (view)
Sat 19 Nov, 2016 11:14 am - The production of toxins (as well as a plethora ... maybe two or three plethori) of other defense mechanisms is a method of avoiding being eaten, not a cause for not wanting to be eaten in the... (view)
Fri 18 Nov, 2016 09:16 am - Does anyone know anything about the actual biological reasons that life entities avoid death?
We're all familiar with how large life forms ... you and me, for example ... avoid death. This... (view)
