<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am also worried you are right on with your comment regarding too much</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">insight possibly being an example of evolutionary maladaptation.</span><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br>spike</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">This is interesting. If evolution had anything to do with it, I'd rather think that not being able to see down into your depths is a better thing than being able to do so. An adaptation, not a maladaptation, that is.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> bill w</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 5:22 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of<br>
Keith Henson via extropy-chat<br>
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<<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>... Keith a comment you made earlier is rattling around in my brain. You<br>
commented about an paper you wrote regarding evolutionary psychology...<br>
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>... Most people assume the "blank slate" model for humans, i.e., little or<br>
no understanding about human motivation such as status-seeking and they do<br>
not accept that humans have behavior switches that get flipped by external<br>
conditions.<br>
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>>... Do elaborate on your having a hard time convincing people it is true<br>
please.<br>
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>...I suspect that there is an evolved purposeful reluctance to insight.<br>
Too much insight may not be good for your genes.<br>
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Keith<br>
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That worries me. I haven't read the literature in the field and only sample<br>
Steven Pinker who is all the rage I understand. I don't see why the blank<br>
slate model is popular for humans, when it is perfectly clear to me people<br>
certainly are born with certain instincts. That this is true is so<br>
self-evidently obvious I am surprised it is questioned at all.<br>
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That people have behavior switches that get flipped by external conditions<br>
must have a difficult time explaining why Germany instituted slavery and<br>
genocide in the 1930s.<br>
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I am also worried you are right on with your comment regarding too much<br>
insight possibly being an example of evolutionary maladaptation.<br>
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spike<br>
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