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Tracing the source of potential human nature involves tracing the instincts engraved in human (biological) genes to survive, reproduce, and pass the time.

From there, more instincts details are derived next level. Eating to ensure survival, sexual behavior to promote reproduction, chatting & entertainment & playing game to pass the time. Further down to the next level, eating, breaking down, digesting, and transforming ensure a perfect eating system; foreplay, gestures, and battles promote efficient sexual behavior; and morals, etiquette, and rules promote a more efficient chatting.

In the process of human evolution, it is only by constantly breaking the instincts of the previous level that we can realize the self beyond the status quo and drive society forward dramatically.

For example, the food tasting has contributed to the extensive development of the restaurant industry. On the contrary, if the most basic survival instincts of human beings are guaranteed by the "development of meal replacement routes", then human beings have to say goodbye to sensory and spiritual enjoyment that is not aimed at survival.

Similarly, human sexual behavior out of a kind of reproduction instinct, the depth of the reproduction instinct carving in the genes is far above the survival, after all, the cycle of sexual behavior is much longer than eating, even in today's highly developed sexual culture, it's still can not be compared. Thus, the provocative dress and language of the opposite sex can be a trigger for sexual impulsive behavior, may be you thinking it's love, but it is essentially drived by reproduction. Only by stepping out of the sexual impulse driven by the instinct to reproduce can you enter the sexual liberation that does not aim at reproduction, and only by stepping out of the sexual liberation driven by pure sensual stimulation can you enter the "ultimate art of perfect synchronized interpretation of the material and spiritual worlds of sight, touch, sound, smell, taste, and spirit". If so, the development of couples relations will be greatly facilitated.

The "development of meal replacement" mentioned above can be said to be a kind of instinctual deep-rooting, even through the form of high technology, it is still a kind of instinctual deep-rooting, which inhibits the self-transcendence of human beings and social progress, and even causes degradation. AI, which is currently in full swing, is also a kind of instinctual deep-rooting, and AGI is even worse than it, as it deep-roots the instinct of "avoiding thinking" derived from "pass the time". Maybe AI is good for a few people, but for all human beings, represented by "the vast majority of people who are driven by instincts", it may cause the degradation of human thinking ability. So AI replacement the evolution of human beings.




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