From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 23:14:16 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> In the same way, if you are bored by sex, it means
> that something probably went wrong in your phenotype
> or genotype, in the (weak) sense that it is predisposing
> you to have fewer offspring.
<shrugs> Our genes given the society which we find ourselves in,
perhaps. If I were a caveman, without significant opportunity for
nonreproductive sex, sex would probably not be as boring. Or maybe it
is some environmental trigger invoked by the number of people I see in
my daily life - certainly, this population level would be gross
overpopulation for any stone age clan, such that more children might do
more harm than good to my immediate kin, thus decreasing the odds of
our shared genes propigating into the future.
It's not just me. Take out immigration, and a number of industrialized
countries have birth rates lower than their death rates.
Of course, there's also the possibility that I realize that the best
chance for my personal indefinite survival - and thus the survival of
those genes inside me (barring uploading, which concept the genes have
never encountered before) - is to pour my resources into technological
advancement. It may be no coincidence that this is what I find
non-boring right now.
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