Following the Fitness-Increasing Direction: Considerations and Challenges

In the previous chapter, I argued that the mind is equipped with several feeling-generating mechanisms, which have evolved to promote the representation of the genes that code for them in future generations, termed fitness. I further argued that following a fitness-increasing life direction will trigger these mechanisms to generate positive feelings, resulting in a life characterized by a higher ratio of positive to negative feelings. In this chapter I aim to expand and clarify certain aspects of this argument.