Not the mind, the brain and its bootstrap program. Reproduction of the genes concerned, not the humans nor the species. Not survival except where this facilitates the above.
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A useful analogy might be how people think about hands. Hands surely evolved for some survival related purpose but that is not where the explanation for why they are (or can be) used to build spectrometers is to be found. Same for brains.
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That reason is the slave of the passions.
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That the evolved purpose of reason is for winning arguments, not for finding truth.
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