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Dawkins' Bicameral Blind

Excuse me, Mr. Dawkins, one, or maybe two, addition(s), if you please: You say "we are survival mechanisms." which of course who could live to dispute? but from looks of me and you and human natures more generally, and bicamerally, we are also health-thrival-relational cooperative organisms before we could ever get to all that struggling with survivolution. You call us, "Robot machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes." To which I heartily add my Not so blindly organically, interdependently programmed for/of bicamerally ego/ecoconscious cooperative win/win thrival Bilateral co-empathic intelligent health regenesis, PolyCultural Design for 0-InteriorSoul with interdependent health intent in/exformed by +/-1 ExteriorZone wealthy win/win resonance v. pathological win/lose 0-sum chaotic rabid anger/fear narcissistic/paranoid NotThisEgo/NotThatEco co-dependent not-healthy/not-safe disempowering dissonance Trauma triggering mere survival robotic machinations.

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