The Rintrah Perspective

I am having difficulty.

The consciousness does not exist. God does not exist. But genes have a desire to copy themselves? I don’t get it.

The selfish gene is the one that wants to make copies of itself over and over again. This is true to the extent that, after many mutations, genes control organisms to do or desire things so that the genes may be replicated. And, yet, the genes have switched form asexual reproduction to our current system of repetitive motions and cuddling. Nevermind the constant performance review process.

It seems that genes are rather stupid. They had a system by which they replicated themselves perfectly and then they decided (somehow) to make things more complicated. If people like Richard Dawkins want to explain things in the overly simplistic model which he constructs ex nihilo in the God Delusion then I want him to explain how sex came to be such a stupid affair. Asexually makes the most sense, at least if there is indeed a selfish gene. I mean if there is the sperm and the egg then the gene only has a 50% chance of being replicated. Asexually there is a 100% chance or thereabouts.

And are there other genes too? What about the genes that cause the organism to not reproduce or replicate? Would these be suicidal genes? What about genes that want to have organism to destroy other genes simply because they are different? Homicidal Gene? Would this be geno-xenocide?

If genes want to replicate and are creating organisms which will help them to reproduce then there are some serious questions that should be asked. At what point in the evolutionary path did these genes decide that this was necessary? Did a gene wake up one day and figure that it would be good to leave a legacy?

If the mind is simply a chemical cocktail that we think exists, even though thinking is a chemical response that exists purely in the chemical cocktail, then I wonder how a gene can control the organism and leave us who think we think but cannot control ourselves.

To put this more coherantly. The mind is simply chemicals and electricity. Genes control the organism. The chemicals and the reactions are the method by which genes control the organism. We are robots serving the work of the gene. The gene, therefore, is that which Jesus died for.

“Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

Damn skippy. Because the genes made me do it. Rape, adultry and prostitution are results of millions of years of evolution.

Maybe I am missing something in this equation. Who knows? I have tried to ask my genes but they are busy trying to think up ways to get me girlfriend or something.