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"We find often that despite the accidentalists’ attempts to deny the metaphysical, boiling everything down to materialism or physicalism, and accidentalism, that they often cannot shake a sense of fulfilment or purpose which manifests as the desire for starting a family, for having a spouse and children. The accidentalists, however, might contend that this desire, like every emotion, in the eliminationist sense is but an illusion, reducible to some chemical reaction in their brain that natural selection has “deemed” or “found” beneficial to the survival of the human species."

SCIENCE! lovers have gone insane! I know you're not a dualist, but I reckon a lot of their apprehension towards assigning a scheme to evolution has to do with an interest in subjugating the metaphysical to the physical. If, after all, the metaphysical is not purely derived from the human consciousness (which SCIENCE! lovers usually explain away as itself also ultimately physical, just also uniquely complex) and has an accredited, manifest pre-existence, it calls into question the source (or rather, Source) of this phenomena, including the "gravitational" mechanisms of evolution. But otherwise, I loved seeing a post this exhaustive on this subject; even reminds me of this article from a few years back - https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/we-want-our-4-causes-back/

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