Emotions have causes. All processes do. I think using words like
"purpose","logic", and "reason" might be taken to mean that processes have
meaning or even justice.
>you can not deny that evolution, whether it has
>failed in spots or not, has been goal oriented. Everything happens for a
>reason. Keep in mind that I am not insisting that it is being directed in
>any sense, because I am not.
Yes. A gene's goal is to make as many copies of itself as possible - to "be
fruitful and multipy". That is the extent of its direction. I still think
I'd agree that everything has a cause, not that everything has a reason.
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