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RRumpleTeazzer t1_j23600o wrote

Reply to comment by Mash_man710 in I have a question about generational ships. by bigmikemcbeth756

Evolutionary wise this would be jackpot, your genes will not only survive, but found a whole civilization (at least during the journey).

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SuperRette t1_j239sho wrote

Except "because evolution" isn't the reason why people do things. Our genes actually don't care about civilization, either. They're molecular chains that don't care about anything. It's only happenstance that they happened to replicate.

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RRumpleTeazzer t1_j23ntlq wrote

Well yes, genes don’t want to do anything. But with self-replication available, the game you can play is sustained self-replication.

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