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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 5 Apr 2017

      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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    2. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 5 Apr 2017
      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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    3. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 5 Apr 2017
      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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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Apr 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev

      We have some kind of free will disconnected from our biological bodies or psyches?

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    5. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 5 Apr 2017
      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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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Apr 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev

      Course not. Just as we almost certainly have fingers to pick fruit not type on keyboards.

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    7. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 5 Apr 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      And in that sense (as well as others), reason is different from other adaptations.

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    8. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 5 Apr 2017
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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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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Apr 2017
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      And hands aren't?

      6:20 AM - 5 Apr 2017
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        2. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 5 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          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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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Apr 2017
          Replying to @christianjbdev

          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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        4. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 5 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          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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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Apr 2017
          Replying to @christianjbdev

          Of course not. I'm not sure why this is significant. It intends nothing. It still gives us the capabilities made possible by variation.

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