[MD] Ham on Esthesia

[Case]

[Platt]
"Biology beat death billions of years ago." (Lila, 21). And biology
certainly exhibits changes in present behavior to affect a future state,
like searching for food or a sexual partner.     

[Case]
Point A: Biology is winning so far. There is nothing to say that it will
continue to do so.

Point B: I started to make the point that organisms react on the basis of
past experience but then I remembered, oh yeah, purpose resides in us.