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Richard Dawkins is a gifted geneticist. He's not worth much outside of genetics, but he has done incredibly important work within that field, some of which is relevant to this particular discussion. That is, the fact that alleles are the main actors within natural selection, not so-called individuals. That is the point of that part of the argument: in a material sense, individuals still are not the primary actors. The same goes for split-brain syndrome. Those are two actual examples in which the individual is not so. There are actual human bodies walking around today that are cloven into two. There are actual alleles that have been identified which increase the fitness of that particular gene at the expense of the carrier, i.e., green beard genes.

Lastly, I make the argument that nonbeing is ontologically superior to being for a reason. All desire is desire for union with the One because the One is wholly Other, indeed, it *is* the Other, the thing beyond language. It is the monstrous mother of Lacan, the ineffable Real we separate from upon the acquisition of language. Such desire for the Other marks all desire because it necessitates a binary rendering of Subject and Object, Self and Other, that structures and makes intelligible human language. A subject who desires something seeks that which is outside the self. Thus desire for anything else is desire for union with the Other, and union is becoming-One. So, all desire is really desire for the ascension beyond being, because upon synthesis of the subject and object, being itself becomes unintelligible as a construct of language.