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- adjacency - pure altruism - selflessness - self / other dualism - individual / collective gestalt - Deep Humanity - biological limitations - evolutionary limitations
adjacency
- between
- pure altruism
- selflessness
- self / other dualism
- individual / collective gestalt
- Deep Humanity
- biological limitations
- evolutionary limitations
- adjacency relationship
- From an evolutionary and biological perspective,
- the individual organism is district from other organisms and the environment
- The individual is defined by a separating boundary and it must exchange energy and materials with it's environment as a necessary condition of survival. It must
- receive and input nutrients inputs and
- transmit, output and eliminate waste byproducts
- The word 'selfless' is a polar abstraction. No individual can be 100% selfless or it would be an act of self-annihilation, a self-destructive act of denying 100% of all inputs necessary for its own survival
- Existing as a living, individual organism requires some degree of individual self care
- At the same time, the process of sexual reproduction,
- in contrast to asexual reproduction
- involves two organisms with sperm and egg, and is inherently social
- In multi cellular organisms with highly complex social behaviours
- such as our species
- there is a strong learned component of concern for other as well
- Pure selflessness is as rare as pure selfishness
- Most of us have degrees of self care and degrees of care for others
- Self and other are intertwingled, hence the Deep Humanity terms:
- individual / collective gestalt
- self / other gestalt