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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 08:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm going to start a project to merge this article with the current "Will to Life" article. Given the philosophical similarity of the two articles, and how editors on both page have some philosophy background (Arthur Schopenhauer and Baruch Spinoza) I think this is not an unwarranted cause. Comicreader13 ( talk) 10:03, 24 September 2017 (UTC)Comicreader13
What sort of merge are you proposing? Copying Will to Live into a subsection of this article, and redirecting it here? Aratos ( talk) 13:06, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
I've expanded the article with what (I hope) is a generally accepted overview of how self-preservation evolves. I don't want to be accused of original research, but I'm having difficulty tracking down some good sources (I don't have access to any of the journals). If someone could review and lend a hand with the references, that would be great. GM Pink Elephant ( talk) 11:45, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
<Commenting on the phrase in Self preservation—Self preservation is part of an animal's instinct which demands that the organism survives at all costs. Pain and fear are parts of this mechanism.>
From
Harry Austryn Wolfson's The Philosophy of
Spinoza 1934, Reprint edition 1983; ISBN:
0674665953; Vol 2: p. 195;
Conatus:
Yesselman 17:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
İt says This behavior works in the exact opposite direction of the survival instinct in the Self Destruction part. I find this part wrong because self destruction is self preservation itself, works in the exact same way and maybe the same thing with different level. The reason of seeing this as a completely opposite or different inscint against self-preservation is the people that doesn't understand the continuity of the bloodline. I don't 'understand' either.
<Commenting on the phrase in Self preservation—Latin Conatus: Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being.>
From
Harry Austryn Wolfson's The Philosophy of
Spinoza 1934, Reprint edition 1983; ISBN:
0674665953; Vol 2: p. 204:
Yesselman 17:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I believe the entry should be spelled self-preservation (with a hyphen) rather than self preservation (as it is currently spelled). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.142.237 ( talk) 20:21, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
I have a hard time believing that this article doesn't deserve more than the half dozen sentences that it currently consists of. I'm no evolutionary biologist or social psychologist but there must be at least enough study out there for an article a few paragraphs in length. Kinema τ 08:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
There needs to be a section about psychology's discussion of self-preservation. The page would link well with Freud's Death Drive (if there is indeed a wikipedia page on that). I really want to see this page expanded.
71.57.68.16 (
talk)
05:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)SMF
How is this basic concept rated "low-importance" by the Wiki project? -- 95.118.51.194 ( talk) 11:44, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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24.244.32.156 (
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19:15, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
i know wiki isn't a research site but i was wondering which part of your dna tell you to survive? that part must be the same in all living things and i dont thing that such a part exist so i end up on the idea that the way the dna is build simple forcing you to survive.isnt that funny.....at 18 of april this year my cousin committed suicide i believe the world that humans build is way too complex even for the humans (is that make sense english is not my native language)
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 08:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm going to start a project to merge this article with the current "Will to Life" article. Given the philosophical similarity of the two articles, and how editors on both page have some philosophy background (Arthur Schopenhauer and Baruch Spinoza) I think this is not an unwarranted cause. Comicreader13 ( talk) 10:03, 24 September 2017 (UTC)Comicreader13
What sort of merge are you proposing? Copying Will to Live into a subsection of this article, and redirecting it here? Aratos ( talk) 13:06, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
I've expanded the article with what (I hope) is a generally accepted overview of how self-preservation evolves. I don't want to be accused of original research, but I'm having difficulty tracking down some good sources (I don't have access to any of the journals). If someone could review and lend a hand with the references, that would be great. GM Pink Elephant ( talk) 11:45, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
<Commenting on the phrase in Self preservation—Self preservation is part of an animal's instinct which demands that the organism survives at all costs. Pain and fear are parts of this mechanism.>
From
Harry Austryn Wolfson's The Philosophy of
Spinoza 1934, Reprint edition 1983; ISBN:
0674665953; Vol 2: p. 195;
Conatus:
Yesselman 17:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
İt says This behavior works in the exact opposite direction of the survival instinct in the Self Destruction part. I find this part wrong because self destruction is self preservation itself, works in the exact same way and maybe the same thing with different level. The reason of seeing this as a completely opposite or different inscint against self-preservation is the people that doesn't understand the continuity of the bloodline. I don't 'understand' either.
<Commenting on the phrase in Self preservation—Latin Conatus: Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being.>
From
Harry Austryn Wolfson's The Philosophy of
Spinoza 1934, Reprint edition 1983; ISBN:
0674665953; Vol 2: p. 204:
Yesselman 17:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I believe the entry should be spelled self-preservation (with a hyphen) rather than self preservation (as it is currently spelled). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.142.237 ( talk) 20:21, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
I have a hard time believing that this article doesn't deserve more than the half dozen sentences that it currently consists of. I'm no evolutionary biologist or social psychologist but there must be at least enough study out there for an article a few paragraphs in length. Kinema τ 08:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
There needs to be a section about psychology's discussion of self-preservation. The page would link well with Freud's Death Drive (if there is indeed a wikipedia page on that). I really want to see this page expanded.
71.57.68.16 (
talk)
05:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)SMF
How is this basic concept rated "low-importance" by the Wiki project? -- 95.118.51.194 ( talk) 11:44, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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24.244.32.156 (
talk)
19:15, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
i know wiki isn't a research site but i was wondering which part of your dna tell you to survive? that part must be the same in all living things and i dont thing that such a part exist so i end up on the idea that the way the dna is build simple forcing you to survive.isnt that funny.....at 18 of april this year my cousin committed suicide i believe the world that humans build is way too complex even for the humans (is that make sense english is not my native language)