BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Natural Selection
28 Sep 2017
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Life and death the search for meaning: meaning as happiness this is essential for our wellbeing, the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions. Sensual pleasure (nutritious food, sex): emotional pleasure ( romance, family, social bonds, moral behaviour, success) Intellectual pleasure (from wonder: helped us create and advance as a society, product of natural selection. A product of natural selection!! (elevated social status, increased attractiveness to mates = rewarded reproductive success) Laughter is a pleasurable sensory incentive reward for recognizing a pattern which promoted fitness of our ancestors: but joys and pleasures don t even need to be forthcoming.
