'Isn't evolutionary psychology just a bunch of unfalsifiable speculation, since we can never really know what happened in the past?' *ignores cosmology, paleontology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, genetics, classics, history, etymology, etc*https://twitter.com/iatemuggles/status/1000517105412911105 …
What makes you so sure that this has to be true? There are probably conditions under which a degree of innately enforced groupthink would have adaptive benefits for the group, and I don't think that it is impossible to encode tendencies for that genetically.
-
-
Suppose that’s true. What happens when somebody, a mutant perhaps, points out the groupthink about an idea? Presumably human brains can represent variants of that idea. What, other than an irrational *culture*, could prevent them from adopting such a variant?
-
Like differences in height, having different kinds of minds is a normal part of population diversity. However, history is full of purges of intellectuals, infidels (and their offspring) etc. especially when rulers wanted to breed more collectivist or docile societies.
- 5 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.