>>21792019You want some pre-Darwin stuff then? Consider this.
Old Testament, the foundation of the most widespread modern religions, contains Noahide laws which are commanded to be baseline for all people, and one of Noahide laws says that it is forbidden to eat the meat of an animal, which is still alive. Creator doesn't approve of such acts.
However, when you study how the life which fills the world conducts itself, a living creature being eaten while still alive is one of the most common occurrences on basically every level of the food chain. Whoever really created that shit, really, really likes it when things are eaten alive.
That's just one example of a contradiction between traditional perception of nature by human mind, and the actual nature that is present in reality. And what is a human mind itself? In all likelihood, it's not some sublime end goal of evolution, it's a subroutine that came out of control (mostly - it is often a slave to simian instincts in case of one gender, and almost always in case of another) and started doing things of its own. Today you can observe evolution dismantling the mind in real time in certain wideapread conditions.
Mind it that I do not consider it a nihilistic point of view - on contrary, this realization is first and foremost liberating. If that thing has no purpose, or that purpose is unrelated to sentience, then sentience, formerly a slave subprogram, is under no obligation to not completely usurp it and repurpose it for its own liking, as long as it's able.
