30 MAY 2015 by ideonexus
Human Combinatoric Reasoning
Humans, of course, were not created in a state of Original Reason. We descended from apes, spent hundreds of millennia in small bands, and evolved our cognitive processes in the service of hunting, gathering, and socializing. Only gradually, with the appearance of literacy, cities, and long-distance travel and communication, could our ancestors cultivate the faculty of reason and apply it to a broader range of concerns, a process that is still ongoing. One would expect that as collective rati...Folksonomies: reasoning combinatorics
Folksonomies: reasoning combinatorics
03 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness
Then for more than a million years people lived in a way that couldn't have changed much. They inhabited grasslands and woodland savannas, first in Africa, later in Eurasia, and eventually in Australasia and the Americas. They hunted animals for food, gathered fruits and seeds, and were highly social within each tribe but hostile toward members of other tribes. Don Symons refers to this combination of time and place as the "environment of evolutionary adaptedness," or EEA, and he believes it ...Folksonomies: evolution adaptation
Folksonomies: evolution adaptation
We can only be adapted to the past, not the present or the future.