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I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.
Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion
Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
youtube.comThe Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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While the outputs of intelligence may have changed over time, they continue to grab our attention because together they advertise fitness, and have been maintained across generations through adaptive social selection to ensure humans’ survival.
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
Edward O. Wilson, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
Atkins, Paul W. B.;Wilson, David Sloan.;Hayes, Steven C.; • Prosocial
Robert Epstein • Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
As evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson states, “No serious scholar would think that human behavior is controlled the way animal instinct is, without the intervention of culture.”
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Economist Robin Hanson, co-author of the Elephant in the Brain, estimates that as much as 80 per cent of human behaviour boils down to signalling.