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selfish

1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc, in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. (Cudworth) In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. (Keble)

2. (Science: ethnology) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. (Fleming)


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living forever

... long term. You can read on game theory and genetics to learn more on the subject. I think there is at least one chapter on the subject in Dawkins' Selfish gene.

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by canalon
Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:48 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: living forever
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Views: 48

Re: The Colin Leslie Dean paradox

... be healed, or what if you began to see a pattern of positive results because these certain people pray? What if you saw people who were once selfish and hard change into sincere compassionate people? Even if you saw just one and he gave the credit to Christ? Wouldn't you at least give it ...

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by AFJ
Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:42 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
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Views: 2138

Human aging

I just noticed I made an error when claiming that Dawkins says we die of old age so as to leave more room for our offspring. Actually in "The Selfish Gene", he writes that this kind of thinking would be "acting for the good of species", which is not what the genes do - they ...

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by biohazard
Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:47 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Human aging
Replies: 17
Views: 1881

Human aging

... a side effect than the limit's actual purpose - which is to ensure that we die in due time (at least I think that's what Dawkins said in "The Selfish Gene"). In a way, I think, you can say that cancer is the way we are meant to die: if you do not die to an infectious disease, trauma or ...

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by biohazard
Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:48 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Human aging
Replies: 17
Views: 1881

Re: Offspring Selfishness changing into Parental altruism?

... increases the individuals chance of survival). Yeah, that was what I had in mind when I started this thread. And this strategy of being selfish when young and altruistic when older is very good and is all so common (I mean the adults are not selfish in the same manner as they are when ...

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by chaka8
Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:52 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Offspring Selfishness changing into Parental altruism?
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