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0053 What does Domning have to say about the evolution of self?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter eight is called, “Evolution and human behavior”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0054 Richard Dawkins writes a book, titled The Selfish Gene<\/em>, where the organism is reduced to gene expression.  A living creature’s diverse features<\/em> are really I-myselves of a self, composed of chromosomes (and its package, the cell)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, Dawkins projects the human term, “selfish”, which means, “to be preoccupied with one’s self”, onto an organism’s DNA, so that the organism itself<\/em> is merely phenomena of a genetic noumenon<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawkin’s analogy is both counterintuitive and entertaining.  It gives rise to a competition to demonstrate one’s intellectual prowess by reading and discussing its quackery with other self-identified “public intellectuals”,<\/em> thereby joining highly educated elites<\/em> who disdain the morons who have no interest in such postmodern wizardry<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 0055 But hey, isn’t the term, “original selfishness”, also a projection?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, yes, imitation is the highest form of flattery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0056 However, unlike the selfish gene, the selfish organism<\/em> manifests psychological traits that express I, myself<\/em> (A).   Thus, original selfishness<\/em> (pre-A) can be explicitly defined and used as a model for behavioral traits<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Domning has that going for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0057 Of course, the problem is that the term, selfish (C),<\/em> introduces a moral seed that blossoms when the adjective becomes the noun, selfishness (D)<\/em>.  Morals imply judgments.  Animals make judgments, but they do not make moral judgments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really, animals perform judgments.  Humans deliberate judgments.  Both make judgments.  But, the former does not dwell on the triadic structure of judgment<\/em>.  The latter does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0058 What exactly is a judgment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A judgment is a triadic structure with three elements, relation<\/em>, what is<\/em>, and what ought to be<\/em>.  A judgment brings what ought to be<\/em> into relation<\/em> with what is<\/em>.  When Peirce’s categories are assigned to each element, the judgment becomes actionable.  Otherwise, the judgment is contemplative.  An actionable judgment unfolds into a category-based nested form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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