Showing posts with label evolutionary psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolutionary psychology. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Evolutionary Fairy Dust

"Evolutionary Psychology"

Among other things, has nothing to do with "evolution".
Misses evolution post-supermind, including the evolution of "Evolutionary Psychology"
Tends to assume a fantasy version of the past and "adaptive" explanation of all that is
Ignores how elastic "our" imagination turns out to be
Regards our current environment as a kind of strange, miracle that we are somehow adapted to

Sam Harris - What Is And What Matters