Survival

[SinJin]

Is there any scientific reason as to why pretty much all living organisms try to survive? Be it through self replication, reproducing, being able to sense and escape danger, etc. And would this built in urge to survive have anything to do with the toe?

[AntonioLao]

Is there any scientific reason as to why pretty much all living organisms try to survive?

Yes. The survival of the fittest is the second principle of the theory of evolution. From this principle, it is asserted that only individuals having features advantageous in a competitive environment can have offsprings surviving into the next generation.

[Guille]

This is one of the things I like about the evolutionary theory, it is competely logical and common-sensitive.

What Antonio wrote is exactly equal to this axiom:

The ones that are more prepeared, will fight the problem better.

[AntonioLao]

Incidentally, the first principle for the theory of evolution is called the principle of natural selection. But who is doing the selection, I definitely have no idea???

[Guille]

Incidentally, the first principle for the theory of evolution is called the principle of natural selection. But who is doing the selection, I definitely have no idea???

Nature itself.

An animal develops thiker skin, or sharper teeth, or longer wings because there is colder times, harder skin of the animals to eat, or too much wind for short wings.

This means, the ocnditions of nature causes the entities of nature to expirience evolution of their nature.

It's nature itself. Nature is circular, just as time.

[AntonioLao]

Natural selection is based on what is experienced by trial and errors. But the perception of these errors can only be processed through a mind, which goes to say that even lower forms of animal should also have its unique mind.

[Guille]

Natural selection is based on what is experienced by trial and errors. But the perception of these errors can only be processed through a mind, which goes to say that even lower forms of animal should also have its unique mind.

If when you say mind you include "instict". Because, according to this, even unicelular creatures have a mind? I don't think so.

By the wya, I think we should go and tell Robert ot move this thread to the biology forum.

[AntonioLao]

even unicelular creatures have a mind

a far lower instinctive mind than ours.

[Guille]

a far lower instinctive mind than ours.

Actually our mind is not anymore purelly instinctive: everything we do is not only based on our physico-biological dessiers.

Because, for example, discussing in a forum about the TOE, is not something that I am commanded to do by my survival instiction, I do it because I have psyquical dessiers.

Psyquical dessiers are based on our beliefs and thought-basement. We can also memorize, develop.....and do many other things.

For me instinctions are part of the sub-conscioussnes.

[AntonioLao]

by the emergence of complexity, or evolving into a more complex structure, the mind acquire knowledge by cognitive learning. We can't be born a Newton or an Einstein but learning from them allow us to discover more complex theory.