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| COVxy 02/08/18 2:27:35 PM #77: | s0nicfan posted... Are you suggesting people aren't animals a few steps away from savagery? Because you say it's easy to bullshit evolutionary psychology, but it seems even easier to ignore the entirety of human history as evidence for the fact that people are, in fact, only a few steps away from savagery. No, I'm saying all words following a statement like "we evolved from x, therefore we behave like.." are very likely bullshitty. It's not that we don't have conserved mechanisms across species, it's just that the people bullshitting about evolutionary psychology are almost always constructing shitty just-so stories. (for example, the circadian rhythm is probably the best example of a conserved mechanism across species, but nobody sees Jordan Peterson talking about circadian rhythms because it doesn't provide some sort of satisfying lay understanding of behavior). Of what's pretty much the only time to try to formalize and directly test an evolutionary psychology account, survival processing (I think the researcher behind it is Nairne) can be much better explained by other psychological processes. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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