[ExI] [tt] Identity thread again
BillK
pharos at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 20:58:21 UTC 2015
On 24 March 2015 at 18:28, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
<snip>
> For those of you who believe in an identity, this reinforced my belief that
> I am a helping person. There any many forms of reward/reinforcement for our
> behaviors and self-reinforcement is one of the most powerful.
>
> How this fits in with people's ideas of evolutionary theory I neither know
> nor care.
>
Don't worry. Whatever your behavior, the evolutionary psychologists
can always make up a story that fits their theory. :)
For humans, cultural memes and situational reactions are more
important in deciding behavior.
BillK
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