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>>14771176
>You don't need a goal to gain an advantage
Yes an entity or concept does
>I didn't try to obtain that wealth, but it's still an advantage to me
It's an advantage because you have goals.
If you just jumped off a bridge bc you hate life as you are falling you have zero goals left, all your wealth at that point is no advantage to you because you have no goals the wealth can (disproportionately compared to others) assist you with bc you have no goals at all.
If you want to argue wealth *can't* help you since there's no turning back once you jump then replace the death method with a slow acting reversible suicide pod and you just hit the start button.
>An evolutionary advantage
Evolution has no goals thus no advantages. Nothing you've said up to now changes this
>if the offspring retain the traits that allowed the parents to survive and mate, which increases their odds of surviving and mating, and so on.
This is a reproductive advantage, not an "evolutionary advantage" which does not exist. You literally spelled out why it's a reproductive advantage via going into details about mating.
>>14771202
>Erosion is not breeding and passing on traits, so this is not a good example
Its a great example as an analogy to evolution bc neither has goals or can have advantages. Unlike breeding and passing on traits, which has goals and thus breeding advantages can be had as well.
>"Evolutionary advantage" does not imply that there's any goals
It absolutely does because there cannot be advantages without goals.
>Those inherited traits are the evolutionary advantage
False. They are a reproductive advantage bc reproduction has goals and advantages help achieve those goals.
>No goals, just survival and sexual selection making the final determination
ROFL the organisms spreading those genes absolutely had goals. Sexual selection is the one of the most goal-oriented phenomena in biology. Survival is a goal as well. You're living in opposite land to even type that sentence.