From: Stuart Armstrong (dragondreaming@googlemail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 07:41:42 MST
> The evident explanation of why evolution has shaped our mental
> architecture in such a way as to optimize our ability to count
> bottlecaps (predators, friends, foes...) do not necessarily explain
> why our mental architecture should also be optimized for deeper
> mathematical reasoning. So, perhaps, it is not.
It isn't. That's why learning mathematics is so much harder than
learning some things of greater objective complexity (social skills,
for example).
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