[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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