Yeah. If you need help, you kind of need to ask the question first.

Think is a rather pointless question. Why are we more important that less complex life-forms? 1. We are not the most complex life-form, nor; 2. Do we have the most complex social structure. In its most basic sense, it comes down to base selfishness and our genetic predisposition toward survival. Cog...

Stirling, I think you might have done a good job of misinterpreting so frequently misinterpreted philosophical theory. Freedom, like life, Nietzsche argues in "The Gay Science" yet brings into sharper focus in his incomplete, "The Will to Power" is also of secondary concern to th...

Groktruth, we're talking philosophy, not new-age spiritualism, not out-dated religious dogma, nor specualtive metaphysics. We're talking about biology, in which case species, organisms or even life-forms are about as pragmatic as you can get. 1. it's altruistic 2. saying "altruistic self-sacrif...

Seeing as this is a philosophy forum, I find it remarkable that so few of the users who come here actually refer to existing philosophical theory. Then again, that might just be me. Why do all lifeforms desire to survive? Well, from a biological point of view, that's a rather simple question: geneti...

This is an idea that I have been kicking around for a while now, so I thought I might throw it out there and see if I might get some feedback. With the exception of non-cognitive and inanimate agents, there exists, beyond the human experience, only two alternative modes of being, both of which can b...