{"id":884,"date":"2003-09-16T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/09\/16\/survival-instincts\/"},"modified":"2003-09-16T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T20:02:28","slug":"survival-instincts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/16\/survival-instincts\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Instincts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little foray into evolutionary biology&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a radio interview I heard recently, Julian Paul Keenan, the author of &#8220;The Face in the Mirror: The Search for the Origins of Consciousness&#8221; says that the main benefit of self-awareness from an evolutionary standpoint is deception. Having self-awareness allows you to deceive others. A secondary benefit is empathy but deception helps you get ahead a heck of a lot better than empathy does.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that one for a while. The implications are sure to intrigue, disgust and stimulate you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little foray into evolutionary biology&#8230; In a radio interview I heard recently, Julian Paul Keenan, the author of &#8220;The Face in the Mirror: The Search for the Origins of Consciousness&#8221; says that the main benefit of self-awareness from an evolutionary standpoint is deception. Having self-awareness allows you to deceive others. A secondary benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}