>>280166839
Incorrect. Sapience is a highly advanced function for survival by allowing animals to learn and alter their behavior in the face of environmental change.
Our emotions are merely behavioral modifiers that stem from more primitive instinctual programming.
The joy you can procure from inventing cold fusion and ensuring humanity has advanced power is less than seeing your firstborn child smile as a baby. There isn't a biological reward, nor is there some sort of metaphysical one, for being "successful" in that you've used your advanced intelligence to essentially make the universe a play thing. At most, you've merely secured a means to acquiring a better standard of mate.
The man who invented the steam engine, the man who invented the light bulb, the Faustian spirit, the pursuit of knowledge and understanding, it all my be this one grandiose thing that places man kind above every other living thing.
At the end of the day, it's just a survival engine, there is no true reward, nothing greater than fulfilling the most basic necessities. Joy is not derived from the spirit of human progress, it's derived from having biological needs met.
