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 @HPluckrose
Reason is a universal tool, which can be applied to environments and problems nowhere encountered in our evolutionary history.
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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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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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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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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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