Just because you try to understand how the world works, what the forces are that guide and motivate us, does not mean you need surrender your humanity. We still get to decide what kind of subjective universe we want to create around us to give our lives meaning. The objective physical reality that underlies it sets limits and restrictions, it defines constraints and possibilities, but we still get to riff on the rest. "That which is not forbidden is mandatory."

Sexual attraction and love of our children may be programmed into us by evolution, but that does NOT mean love for wife and family is any less a sublime and noble experience or any less a solemn obligation; they are even even more so because we choose to see them that way. A tropical sunrise at sea is not merely a meteorological phenomenon, and regardless of what Whitman tells us, the more astronomy you know, the more breathtaking the night sky is.

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