0. As usual, @naval asks a seemingly simple question with impossibly difficult implications. It's Sunday, I've got time, so thread.https://twitter.com/naval/status/891586520661934081 …
Am I right in sensing you understand "the brain" as the function of survival/reproduction and the "the mind" as something more than that?
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In my framework, the brain has an intuitive system and, in some animals, the analytical one. I'm inclined to call the latter "the mind".
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My distinction: intuitive is "if A, then B". Analytical is "A and C. What is B so that this is possible?"
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So intuitive is fully experiential; analytical is what allows to go beyond experience.
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I thought so. A necessary distinction. In that case I would argue that the analytical/rational mind also evolved via Darwinian selection...
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... Although I find it very difficult to define what "beneficial" is within this context. What do you understand as beneficial?
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I meant it in the context of natural selection. Tho I'd say that the same biases that are beneficial to evolution also make us act in a way…
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…that is beneficial to our self (pleasure, etc) in a way that doesn't benefit fitness to selection (as long as it doesn't impair it).
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I see your point. My sense is that the more evolved the analytical mind becomes the further it diverges from the experiential mind...
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