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A believer today cant think science without denying religion(religion becomes a virus) and similarly a scientist cant live with religion without declaring science as false.
You are not understanding.The meme theory denies religion any place under the sun.It is a virus of which we should get rid of.It says throw away your religious sentiments.(this statement can not be diluted)Such is the madness.
Behind all the humble words there is hidden rationality.And that rationality insists that Religion spreads from parents to offsprings. Religion is a collection of irrational statements.Therefore it is a Virus because most societies do not have a choice.I will share a defintion of pleasure from two point of views:1.The known expereince :When we are involved doing Sex then the experiences is called pleasure.2.Common standard for all Life: It is a biological state found during Sex. Just as finding food is biological activity. Similarly finding or illuminating points of pleasure is a biological activity.The direction of evolution is towards sustainable pleasure... means the life enetity tries to bring pleasure(just like food)closest to its reach.Pleasure
What I am thinking is that you are confusing means and ends.REP:Analogous to Hunger , we understand food as end and means are manifesting due to food.Similarly Pleasure is universal goal and means are manifesting because of experience associated with Sex. The evolution of life is towards sustainable pleasure.Greater the sustainability more advance the species.=================================QuoteNature does use pleasure as a motivating force for animals, but that is not to say that pleasure itself is a driving force for nature.One simple example I could give. Endorphins are natures opiate, and they induce pleasure; but one can achieve the same end by using artificial opiates (such as heroin), but using artificial opiates can be self destructive, because you achieve the pleasure without undertaking the tasks that nature intended as a prerequisite for achieving that pleasure (e.g. gaining pleasure through sex is a way that nature persuades people to have sex, but gaining pleasure without the need to have sex will mean people don't have sex, and the species fails to thrive).REP: Exactly drugs are non-sustainable. The biological system sooner or later becomes immune to the drugs or rejects it. It is not the drugs which brings the pleasure it is the balance of certain neurlogical chemicals which produces pleasure in a sustainable way. If the system gets disbalanced then the same drugs will not produce the same old effect.It can lead to pain... sometimes too much pain.================================Moreover , the evolutionary behaviour has been such that the sources of pleasure should recreatable. Independent of seasons or geography...
Nature does use pleasure as a motivating force for animals, but that is not to say that pleasure itself is a driving force for nature.One simple example I could give. Endorphins are natures opiate, and they induce pleasure; but one can achieve the same end by using artificial opiates (such as heroin), but using artificial opiates can be self destructive, because you achieve the pleasure without undertaking the tasks that nature intended as a prerequisite for achieving that pleasure (e.g. gaining pleasure through sex is a way that nature persuades people to have sex, but gaining pleasure without the need to have sex will mean people don't have sex, and the species fails to thrive).
REP:Analogous to Hunger , we understand food as end and means are manifesting due to food.
Similarly Pleasure is universal goal and means are manifesting because of experience associated with Sex. The evolution of life is towards sustainable pleasure.Greater the sustainability more advance the species.
REP: Exactly drugs are non-sustainable. The biological system sooner or later becomes immune to the drugs or rejects it. It is not the drugs which brings the pleasure it is the balance of certain neurlogical chemicals which produces pleasure in a sustainable way.
If the system gets disbalanced then the same drugs will not produce the same old effect.
Moreover , the evolutionary behaviour has been such that the sources of pleasure should recreatable. Independent of seasons or geography...
But the moment you talk about balance, then it follows that you are veering away from the extreme (i.e. then you are talking about a balance between pleasure and pain, rather than simply looking at ever increasing pleasure).
The please explain SAD (seasonally affective disorder) ? which is a depressive disorder that affects many people due to the lack of sunshine in the winter months at higher latitudes.