Rachell Powell
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So it's highly likely that –
human morality has genetic components, probably quite substantial ones.
Through a process of gene culture coevolution, humans evolved these highly cooperative societies.
It's not like we're immune to the idea that there are genetic influences.
But I think at the end of the day, how that biasing occurs doesn't matter as much as the fact that it has occurred and the function is produced.
And ultimately, like I said, yeah, humans might have more flexibility, but I would bet everything that the social insects, which are probably, I mean, they're sort of equivalent in nature.
Even just the ants are probably equivalent to humans in the fraction of energy that they commandeer in the biosphere today, right?
Or biomass and everything.
And that includes their domesticates, by the way.
I mean, we have a lot of domesticates, but so do they.
Yeah.
You know, both fungi and animals.
And so I really don't have much doubt, for good or for worse, just as a statement of fact, I think, that humans are going to be long gone and you're going to have social insects peppering the fossil record for another 100 million years plus.
And, you know, I'm not saying that that makes them better in any way.
In fact, there's nothing...
like morally, robustly, morally normative in any of this?
It's not like, people sometimes ask me like, oh, well, if these are normative societies, what can we learn from them about how we ought to structure our society?
I say nothing, nothing.
I mean, well, you know what?
We could have learned faster how to inoculate.
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