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- [ On 'Love, Sex And Marriage' ] [ By The GNN ]
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- ON 'LOVE, SEX AND MARRIAGE'
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- "Love, Sex and Marriage" by Leon Felkins, is a well-written essay about
- the 'real' forces behind a familiar phenomena; namely 'love'. In short,
- the conclusions drawn by Mr. Felkins claim that love is nothing more than
- a result of our genes. There is nothing 'mystical' with love - everything
- is reducible to genes. Love does not exist in some 'divine' way, nor is it
- some metaphysical object (as we normally would like to claim) - it is just
- our genes that play with our mind. We are also restricted by our 'memes.'
- In social life, we stay away from immoral actions due to these memes.
- However, I would like to show that this essay is not as controversial as
- Mr. Felkins wants us to believe. On the contrary, this essay is very
- characteristic for the period after the industrial revolution, which we
- live in, when it comes to methods and conclusions.
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- This is the core of Mr. Felkins essay: Love and sex are nothing more than
- a show written and directed by our genes and memes. Hence, we should not
- accept any religious, metaphysical or equal answers concerning love. No
- physician consult the holy bible to find answers, since everything is in
- the atoms. Naturally, says even the physician, not 'everything' is in the
- atoms. There must be other forces that we do not know about. Love, for
- example, cannot be in the atoms alone. So where is it? In the genes and
- memes, according to Mr. Felkins.
- We have just realized that we have fallen into the pit of extreme
- scientism. We live in an age where 'science' is the endless source of all
- truths. After the industrial revolution, man threw away all dogmas and
- understood that the old truths were worthless. Science is Science. Science
- is the Right way. Mr. Felkins essay is another fine example of this
- movement. Everything around us must, by necessity and 'rationality' be
- reduced to empirical science (in this context, psychology is also
- considered as an empirical science).
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- Why is that so? Because, empirical science produces results. Empirical
- science means 'progress'. There is no progress in metaphysical and religious
- beliefs! It is not even Science! That is why we must abandon these
- worthless activities! The world is atoms. We are made of atoms. Therefor,
- we are ruled by the atoms. Hey, wait a minute, some people say. Ruled by
- atoms? Is not that reductio ad absurdum? Of course it is. But reducing
- everything concerning the human mind, when it comes to love, to genes and
- memes, is not that reductio ad absurdum too?
- Perhaps not. Reducing everything to atoms is a messy business. That would
- be too hard to get a grip on. Reducing it to genes, however, is much more
- easier. We will find 'results', or in this case 'explanations'.
- But what kind of 'explanations' do we really find? Well, in the end:
- love is a results of our genes. Mr. Felkins just love to reduce everything
- to our genes, this is a fact. But that is, as said, not all - there are
- memes too. Genes are the hard core, they do not change as fast as memes
- do. Working together, genes and memes produce what we would call 'love'.
- So, is there something wrong with this reduction? Prima facie, no: The
- reduction makes it very easy for us. We find easy 'explanations'.
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- But we said that it was a messy business to reduce everything to atoms.
- But just because it is messy, it does not mean that it is wrong. But it
- does not mean that it is right either. Reducing everything to genes and
- memes is easy; but that does not make it true. It gives us 'explanations',
- of course, but what kind of explanations?
- Let me put it this way: worthless explanations. We are in dark waters
- here, the human mind is a very unfamiliar place. We do not know how the
- brain works at all. And how our genes really work are not so familiar
- either, as Mr. Felkins wants us to believe. But he offers us easy
- explanations that 'works'. Sure, they work in a sense. But just because
- they work prima facie, are they true? Probably not. As I said, the human
- mind and genes are not completely explored.
- We do not really understand what love is. Hence, some uneducated people
- suffers from a special kind of neurosis, says Mr. Felkins. Those who know
- that love is just in the genes and memes, does not suffer from this because
- they know what it is all about. How nice. Back in the old days, philosophers
- treated their neurosis by reducing everything to four basic elements. That
- explanation of the world 'worked' too!
- "What does a 'stone' consist of? Well, these elements..."
- "What is love? Well, these basic elements... <genes> <memes>"
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- The picture now ought to be clear; Just because something is easy to
- explain, that explanation is not necessary true. We look at the ancient
- philosophers and laugh. How could they be so childish! But when we try to
- explain the unexplainable nowadays, we are dead serious. We are scientists,
- hard men that knows how to separate Truth from False from Nonsense.
- There is also a drawback: alienation. Science is said to give us the
- truths, but the 'results' alienates us from morality and ourselves. We do
- not longer believe in objective moral truths since science has told us that
- morality is nothing more than memes. We are suddenly turned into
- utilitarians, seeking pleasure because it feels good. We do not respect
- other people, we do not 'really' love them - because we know that in the
- end everything is just atoms (or 'genes', whatever).
- Man could not stand the religious crap anymore and turned to the
- empirical sciences for truths. This was of course a healthy thing to do.
- Religion is nothing more than dogmas. But science has made us worship other
- dogmas. The result of religion was oppression. The result of science is
- alienation. We want to believe that we understand the background to
- everything, but in the end we are just as confused as we were back in
- the old days.
- Mr. Felkins wants us to avoid the mine fields of myths concerning love
- and sex. But he is walking on another mine field; the one that belongs to
- the empirical sciences. The myth that science is everything, is nothing
- more than a myth.
-
- My critique can be easily explained by Mr. Felkins; I am just interested
- in sex. And this text will give me more sex. I guess his line of argument
- would be like this: 'My way of handling love is controversial. People will
- not agree with me. Some people will dislike my ideas. You do not like my
- way of dealing with the problem of love. And you know that some women <or
- men, if I had been a woman> will fancy your way, because it appeals to
- the old myths about love that people like (as love is in movies from the
- 50's: mystical). Hence, your text is just a result of your genes. You want
- sex.'
- Of course, I am not sure if Mr. Felkins would express himself like that.
- But the concept is hopefully clear: Mr. Felkins wants to (as all empirical
- sciences) reduce everything to some minimal object. Micro is the word of
- today, macro means nothing. We believe that we are on our way to the
- final truth, because we have trashed the religious crap. But we have just
- changed our point of view. God is dead, long live physics. The result is
- alienation from ourselves and other people. Mr. Felkins claims that
- "...<memes> can be overridden by applying the rules of logic." This would
- be true if the world was black and white. But the color of theory is, and
- will always be, grey.
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- What should we do? Return to the old days? Of course not! But we should
- be careful. Science works good, that is a fact. But we should not forget
- to study the morality more close, and not trash it with the words
- 'Everything is just in the atoms or genes anyway!' because then we will
- suffer from another kind of neurosis, namely alienation. And that is as
- bad as being oppressed by religion.
- Science is just a new religion, let us be aware of that.
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- * Sources.
-
- (There are naturally several more sources to the views expressed in this
- text, and the below ones are just a few of them.)
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- - Peter Railton, "Alienation and the Demands of Morality", Philosophy and
- Public Affairs Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring 1984).
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- - R. Schacht, Alienation. Garden City, NY: Doubleday (1971).
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- - A series of lectures held by PhD Craig Dilworth on philosophy of
- science, at the University of Uppsala, Sweden (Spring 1993).
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- - Rom HarrM-^B, The Philosophies of Science, (second edition). Oxford: Oxford
- University Press (1972)
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