Where in the literature does one find this supposed idea, according to @CeliaHeyes, that evolutionary psychology posits massive numbers of cognitive modules which are "minimally dependent" on experience?
http://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/celia-heyes-on-cognitive-gadgets … / @socialscibites
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Not in Kurzban's Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite; not in H. Clark Barrett's The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve; not in
@hugoreasoning &@dansperber's The Enigma of Reason...3 replies 2 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Not in @MndsMkSocieties's Minds Make Societies; not in
@ToobyCosmides's "The Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology" (https://bit.ly/2J65toh ).1 reply 2 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Replying to @robsica @ToobyCosmides
People hallucinate these strange ideas because they cannot let go of zero-sum genes / environments ideas. That stuff (and related "nature/nurture" nonsense) is like weeds, keeps coming back. See Intro to
@GadSaad's Consuming Instinct, see Tooby & Cosmides passim...1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
... but thinking in terms of nature and culture seems so entrenched that it will take many books to uproot that tenacious weed. Unfortunately that way of thinking is highly intuitive as well as awfully misguided.
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