Reminder that evo-psych ain't everything. It may be 'in our nature' to tear each-other limb from limb, but we can use reason to avoid that.
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Evolution supplied us with ability to reason, it didn't tell us what to do with it, or could have anticipated what we would discover.
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Course not. Just as we almost certainly have fingers to pick fruit not type on keyboards.
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And in that sense (as well as others), reason is different from other adaptations.
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Reason is a universal tool, which can be applied to environments and problems nowhere encountered in our evolutionary history.
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And hands aren't?
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Hands can't pick up molecules, or take the tops off mountains, but we can. And we are the only animal who can.
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Without hands? They're pretty important too. But yes, we are. Because we evolved to be. But agree. Not 'constrained' by this - enabled.
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Evolution has no predictive power. We weren't evolved to solve quadratic equations or write essays on why the french destroyed civilization
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