It's clear you didn't really read my previous post in much detail as I believe my responses from my last post still stands so I will refer you to that...
Granted. And perhaps "comfort is a preference" is something innate. A dog rather sleep in dry place than the rain. I have no problem with that idea. G...
Yep, pretty much agree there. Variation leading to selection through population niche in the environment. Well now you are putting the cart before the...
I think I can agree with all or most of this and still retain it is mostly stories all the way down (in the case of humans). Babies also have an innat...
:rofl: Definitely. But I asked an even more radical question in a post above. I'll just quote the whole post here though because you may have some com...
Yet homeless learn to do it, and the ones that like the lifestyle prefer um, "urban camping" (and not saying all or most homeless people do of course)...
Reproduction is another complex scenario of biology interplaying with sociology and culture. There isn't a clean cut answer. How do you know the origi...
So the questionable part is not if human brains were directed by evolutionary forces. Rather, it is whether certain contents of our thoughts and suppo...
Sure but isn't that basic cognitive psychology? Evolutionary psychology tries to go beyond that to how. With EP, it is basically trying to figure out ...
We can do that. I am not saying we shouldn't, but it is a competing idea amongst many, so this is more a critique as to how efficacious it is in this ...
Yes it is plus infinity! As I said, it's a suitable "jumping off point", then provided more. I’m discussing it on a casual philosophy forum. Know your...
The New Yorker article is a good jumping off point from which I quoted heavily. Thanks Wayfarer. The Wikipedia article itself had some good ones. You ...
I am you trolling nitwit. Read my other posts. If you want to make an argument instead of troll me then do so. Otherwise, you’re a hack of a hack. An ...
The exact nature of the evolved traits (what its origins are), and its attributions. See my post above: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comm...
Sure, possibly exaptations that were then coopted as adaptations. But this is so general that it really doesn't touch the realm of evopsych. Noam Chom...
I think it goes back to what I said in the here: But yes, I agree with your points about language. That is certainly something in our hardwiring. How ...
No. But is it amenable to science is the question. That article actually covers the general problems I am presenting. I think @"BC" kind of gets at it...
:ok: Eh, evolution related to physical artifacts, and biological systems, even perhaps cognitive systems. But more complex behavior? Much more of a gr...
Yes I am, and you're right, I don't care about being an outlier. However, when someone implies that something I am presenting is an outlier when it is...
Understandable, I think understanding human motivation and the human condition is valid. I do it all the time. Evo-psych basis for things is harder to...
Yeah, "formal". I wonder if anyone has ever written on this before..oh wait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology Plotki...
Psychology is too broad.. Freudian Psychology or Cognitive Psychology? A bit different. Evolutionary Psychology just seems to be something that is esp...
Other people are hell- Sartre wasn't wrong. Most people are narcissistic- they think their estimation of life, and their loneliness means more childre...
That would be Philipp Mainlander I bring up sleep, perchance to dream, because it is so discounted as a transcendent state. Often elusive, we all want...
Indeed, the ascetic goes even beyond the artistic genius who it is claimed, sees the eternal Forms. It is a full-blown denial of will. Everything inde...
I wasn't referring to Nirvana per se. I was referring to the idea that Schopenhauer was world-denying rather than stoic or other such similar-looking ...
Indeed. Much of life is enduring. Sleep is best. But sleep cannot be forced. So then there is meditation or just learning to sit quietly in an empty r...
It's hard to classify him, but these are the things that make it hard to really get at. I think he is saying that it is all illusions of mind, and tha...
Even more, he's a fullblown Idealist. Indirect Realists think there is "something" material external to mind but it's perceived in some constructed wa...
Schop has a unity: Will. Schop tries to explain a plurality: Forms There is never really a good explanation of how Will is objectified into Forms, or ...
Oddly pretty accurate actually. I wanted more jargony and technical. Math equations and statistics, and engineering problems, and farming, and clothes...
You can't ignore consciousness though when talking about us. A sun is "working" no? A river? A human produces stuff to keep its metabolism going, a wh...
Good points. Well, I did start a thread called "Entropy and Enthalpy" and asked what the ethical implication is. As predicted, the minutia mongering o...
Certainly, but this would be antithetical to Schop's main point regarding materialism, that it doesn't properly account for the inner dimension of min...
Whence the Forms from Will? Whence Objectification of Will into Forms? And "whence" is time, space, causality turning that into the "kaleidoscope" of ...
I think it's funny that the atomism of Western society only focuses on economic institutions. It creates its own self-contained nihilism. If we take a...
It's not worth considering, but it's worth mentioning. The very fact that the good comes with such unknown (and very objectionable negatives) should n...
Oh it is as you say, which is why sometimes secondary sources are fine for me. I don't need a bunch of wrong attempts at psychology and science stretc...
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