🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <H13PsB3w165w@netlink.cts.com> snodgras@netlink.cts.com (John Snodgrass) writes:
>frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams) writes:
>> As an intelligent entity, I have a number of purposes, one of which is to
>> survive.  Why should I single out this purpose as my purpose *as an
>> organism*?
>
>      Because, if you didn't survive, you would no longer be an
>organism. Put another way, if you didn't survive, all your other purposes
>(which I would label as _derivative_ purposes) would become irrelevent.

But they wouldn't.  One of my purposes is to keep my family alive; I care
about their continued survival even in the event of my demise.  It is true
that I would not continue to have these other purposes after dying; but I
would also cease having them if I became permanently unconscious.  Why isn't
remaining conscious my purpose as an organism?

>>   One "purpose"
>> derives from the evolutionary dynamic; the other is inseparably part of the
>> behavior of an intelligent entity.
>
>     The "intelligent entity" is a product of your imagination.

If I wasn't an intelligent entity, I wouldn't have an imagination.