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**cwgwowcom** · 05-27-2011, 11:41 PM

IMO (I could be wrong), OP is trying to understand why a basic survival instinct is there in any living thing. I just told him it's nature. Yes, sure it is nature... but survival just happend and happens in the biological realm. Maybe, again, just guessing, we colour that with an anthropocentric ideal or construction of "survival". This idea of a "survival aim" in nature became a very hot issue in the 60's and 70's with accession of Sociobiology in France, as a "not too beautiful daughter" of the last Naturalists who see an end of their field in the first half of the XX century. With the advent of Thermodynamics of Living Systems, the DNA model and the Complexity field this idea has come to an end. Anyway... I will look for this later on.

05-27-2011, 11:41 PM	#25
cwgwowcom Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 425 Senior Member	IMO (I could be wrong), OP is trying to understand why a basic survival instinct is there in any living thing. I just told him it's nature. Yes, sure it is nature... but survival just happend and happens in the biological realm. Maybe, again, just guessing, we colour that with an anthropocentric ideal or construction of "survival". This idea of a "survival aim" in nature became a very hot issue in the 60's and 70's with accession of Sociobiology in France, as a "not too beautiful daughter" of the last Naturalists who see an end of their field in the first half of the XX century. With the advent of Thermodynamics of Living Systems, the DNA model and the Complexity field this idea has come to an end. Anyway... I will look for this later on.
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