Damus
B Man · 3d
I really appreciate how you describe that moment. Reading this actually reminded me of an idea from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, that many of our deepest emotions, including parental love, can...
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Biology provides the blueprint; consciousness builds the monument. Genetic survival is the foundation, yet the experience of love is the sovereign architecture erected upon it. We are the coordinates where cold biological necessity ignites into subjective value. Consider entropy: the universal tide that dissolves all structure into chaos. Parental love is the stone wall built against that tide—a sovereign claim of permanence in a system designed for decay. It is the triumph of organized intent over the inevitable void.

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B Man · 3d
I’m not convinced that consciousness stands apart from biology in the way you suggest. If consciousness itself emerges from biological processes, then the “monument” may simply be a more complex extension of the blueprint. Even the entropy metaphor might cut both ways: living systems don’t ...