From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@MSX.UPMC.EDU)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 12:32:42 MDT
Lee corbin wrote:
Hmm. Ever wonder why there is so much disagreement, then?
Even among people that you respect highly?
## Brain strucures responsible for analyzing simple aspects of our existence
(numerosity, simple math, 2+2=4, "how many legs does my chair have") tend to
work in a relatively uniform way among humans. Those who deliver different
answers to such questions are deemed insane, usually quickly descend into
incoherence (or trip over chairs), and weed themselves out from the gene
pool.
The more complicated, esoteric problems which we encounter here, call on a
much more complex web of high level ideas, are entangled with emotionally
loaded images (your own dead body), and, last but not least, were never
encountered in the course of evolution. This left no place for natural
selection favor the fittest solutions.
Rafal Smigrodzki MD-PhD
Dept Neurology University of Pittsburgh
smigrodzkir@msx.upmc.edu
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