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“If a gene could build a brain that could tell when copies of itself were sitting in another animal's gonads, it would make the brain enjoy the other animal's well-being, and make it act in ways that increased that other animal's well-being.”

Cognitive Science Selfish Genes

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“Genes manipulate the world and shape it to assist their replication.”

Selfish Genes Extended Phenotype

Book:The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“The individual... has no value for nature, and can have none, for infinite time, infinite space, and the infinite number of possible individuals therein are her kingdom. Therefore nature is always ready to let the individual fall, and the individual is accordingly not only exposed to destruction in a thousand ways from the most insignificant accidents, but is even destined for this and is led towards it by nature herself, from the moment that individual has served the maintenance of the species. In this way, nature quite openly expresses the great truth that only the Ideas, not individuals, have reality proper, in other words are a complete objectivity of the will.”

Individual Selfish Genes Ruthless Nature

Book:The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

Source: The World as Will and Representation, Volume I