What's the point of loneliness?
Question:
From an evolutionary perspective, what’s loneliness good for? Is it designed to get human beings into groups? After all, it’s obvious that humans are more effective in groups than alone. Therefore, it makes sense that nature would "hard-wire" us with a mechanism that makes us uncomfortable when we’re away from other human beings for too long.
Response:
gray_lo…@yahoo.com (Gray Loser) said in news:305f1874.0305231931.3c03f5f6@posting.google.com: > From an evolutionary perspective, what’s loneliness good for? > Is it designed to get human beings into groups? After all, it’s > obvious that humans are more effective in groups than alone. > Therefore, it makes sense that nature would "hard-wire" us with a > mechanism that makes us uncomfortable when we’re away from other human > beings for too long.
Pesky evolutionary hard-wireage! 
Response:
"Gray Loser" <gray_lo…@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:305f1874.0305231931.3c03f5f6@posting.google.com… > From an evolutionary perspective, what’s loneliness good for? > Is it designed to get human beings into groups? After all, it’s > obvious that humans are more effective in groups than alone. > Therefore, it makes sense that nature would "hard-wire" us with a > mechanism that makes us uncomfortable when we’re away from other human > beings for too long.
Very interesting theory. Makes sense to me.
Response:
"Gray Loser" <gray_lo…@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:305f1874.0305231931.3c03f5f6@posting.google.com… > From an evolutionary perspective, what’s loneliness good for? > Is it designed to get human beings into groups? After all, it’s > obvious that humans are more effective in groups than alone. > Therefore, it makes sense that nature would "hard-wire" us with a > mechanism that makes us uncomfortable when we’re away from other human > beings for too long.
Ha! So the ppl who weren’t lonely and said "fuck this I’m outta here!" didn’t reproduce.
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