Quote from: kmfkewm on May 14, 2013, 03:08 amBut for females to enjoy VR sex first scientists would need to program AI that passes the turing test. For men to enjoy VR sex it is mostly only a graphics problem.That may have a much more general meaning. Separate but related modes of selection. It adequately explains why sex and sexes exist at all.Consider: women select for status, men for appearance. The females decorate themselves for hours and the male obtain useless but expensive objects. Clearly these funny creatures are up to something, because on the face of it a lot of this is maladaptive behavior.So what is status, but some average of overall intellect, and what is appearance, but some average phenotype of environmental fitness. Status and phenotype are like powerful heuristics to determining what is inside, indirectly reading the genes themselves.Then, by creating hybrids and continually reiterating with natural selection, you get this ideal trade off between the evolutionary pressures for higher intelligence and higher environmental fitness. See, every biologist knows brain size is an incredibly expensive but extremely useful commodity in the natural world, and every biologist knows that a useful adaption can often become the subject of an arms race, quickly resulting in extinction because too much evolution in one direction causes an overspend which in a twist of irony prevents adaption when the environment changes. It's like the division of labor when people specialize a lot and then the economy tanks and they're all out of work.So: males and females have sex because it prevents all kinds of dangerous arms races, evolution working too rapidly. Well, they think that they want to fuck because the girl is pretty or the boy is a good provider, but it is the same thing.