Quotes About Survival

Word of advice," the Colonel said from the other side. "Don't tease the zombies.

Lenie " odzywa siÄ™ Joel "SÅ'ucham?" "PróbowaÅ'aÅ› siÄ™ kiedyÅ› zabi??" "Jasne, jak ka?dy" odpowiada

there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all survival strategy

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default. Rorschach does nothing to you that you don't already do to yourselves.

If we're so unfit, why haven't we gone extinct? Why? Because natural selection takes time, and luck plays a role. The game isn't over. The game is never over; and so, neither can there be any winners. There are only those who haven't yet lost.

Ludzie naprawdÄ™ nie walczÄ… o odcieÅ" skóry czy ideologiÄ™ – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji "swoich". Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza siÄ™ do wiÄ™zów krwi i ograniczonych zasobów.

Good parasites are invisible; the best are indispensable.

SPECIES USED TO GO EXTINCT. NOW THEY GO ON HIATUS. —Deborah MacLennan, Tables of our Reconstruction

You have a naïve understanding of evolutionary processes. There's no such thing as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternatives.

ALL ANIMALS ARE UNDER STRINGENT SELECTION PRESSURE TO BE AS STUPID AS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH.

Extended periods of lungfish-like dormancy8 (the "undead" state) developed in response, as a means of reducing vampires' energetic needs. Vampires

Any race which can't rise above its own brutal instincts will wipe itself out long before it learns to bridge the interstellar gulf.

even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Truth had never been a priority. If believing a lie kept the genes proliferating, the system would believe that lie with all its heart.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.

I was drug through the cave away from the others.

It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.