How did the human mind, with all its faculties and capacities, develop during the long evolution of human beings? ‘Evolutionary psychology’ is the field that hypothesizes how all our mental activities were selected for during evolution. But are the proposed mechanisms too cute, the story too pat? Some say that physical laws can never explain raw consciousness.
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Topic Series
Does Evolutionary Psychology Explain Mind? (Part II)
Robert Trivers
Sean Carroll on Physics, the Multiverse, and Quantum Mechanics
Eastern Traditions: What are Ultimate Existence & Essence?
Hilary Lawson & Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Answering Fan Questions on AI, Consciousness, & More
Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain
Eastern Traditions: Why are Suffering and Ritual Vital?
