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The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism (1998)

18 points| magda_wang | 8 years ago |lrb.co.uk | reply

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[+] quantumofmalice|8 years ago|reply
> So, what matters with regard to the question whether the mind is an adaptation is not how complex our behaviour is, but how much change you would have to make in an ape’s brain to produce the cognitive structure of a human mind. And about this, exactly nothing is known

Seems like begging the question to me, fam.

> you could get some by a miracle.

Well, at least that would be intellectually honest.