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[HydrogenBond]

I am not sure if animal analogies for human is the best way to define human behavior. For example, some animals will demonstrate incest, killing of their young, some will fight to death, steal, etc., Dogs can hump a human leg which demonstrates sexual behavior out of a species. We can show animals who like a high fat diet. Or animals who prefer rotten meat, such as scavengers. There are animals, like lions that demonstrate polygamy. One can also witness old animals having sex with adolescent animals. We can get whatever we want using some type of animal observation. This may not be the best approach.

Here is my logic. The primary purpose of sexuality is reproduction. This evolved to mix genes to help with evolution. The primary purpose of eating, is to feed nutrients and fuel to the body. Both of these ends, have a carrot on the string, to lead humans and animals to these final ends. Natural should be defined as the range of carrots that have selective advantage in terms of reaching the logical ends. If one gets bogged down chasing the carrot, one is off in a subroutine. If we use animal behavior, as the justification, there are all types of subroutines that are possible. Many have been eliminated by culture because they don't reach the ends.

Let me give an example. I can eat rocks, if my subroutine or the carrot on a string for eating is consciously or unconsciously placed in that loop. I can then point to birds and chickens to support this subroutine. In that case, science would look at the bigger loop of eating and would say eating rocks, although pleasurable for me, and is also demonstrated by some animals, does not promote the goal of the bigger hunger loop. I would be told I have modified the natural carrot connected to the big loop in such a way I have left the big loop in favor of a subroutine.

The way the brain is set up, is with a core. Then there is personality software and then the conscious mind. We can run the brain from any of these points. The carrot on the string is usually done at the level of the software.