Some people feel our human experience is diminished if we understand how it works cognitively, particularly in the case of love & art.
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It's a simple truth that people are moved & satisfied by different things.The most Vulcan-like among us are still excited & awed by humanity
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Sometimes people think coz I like evolutionary psychology, I want to 'reduce' everything to biology, make it smaller & less impressive. No.
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Aside from the fact that I think it's the best evidenced approach to psychology that we have & gets us closest to understanding ourselves...
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...it's also deeply satisfying in that it doesn't limit us to humans who exist now but links us to all life & millions of yrs of history.
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Many people like to look forward in terms of where we are going - progress of reason & science and/or transhumanism - I'm a historian.
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I've always been more interested in where we came from & why we are how we are tho I recognise that thinking of the future is more important
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This might interest you, if you haven't already seen ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Ys4tQPRis&t=4786s …
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Prof Peterson does not interest me, I'm afraid.
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