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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Replying to @christianjbdev
Evo-psych people reading this tweet be like: "that's a total straw-man! We never made any such claim!"
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Be that as it may, keep in mind when reading any piece of human behaviour that we're not completely chained by our evolution or psychology.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
We have some kind of free will disconnected from our biological bodies or psyches?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @christianjbdev
Course not. Just as we almost certainly have fingers to pick fruit not type on keyboards.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And in that sense (as well as others), reason is different from other adaptations.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Well, evolution not telling animals what to do with abilities or anticipating what they would do with them is kind of self-evident.
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What with it not having a brain of any kind. We still exist precisely because we can adapt capabilities.
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